Lititz Record Express

              I___________________________________________________________________________ THURSDAYDecember 19, 1991
L i t i t z R e c o r d E x p r e s s
115TH YEAR LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA 28 Pages- No. 35 30 cents
Twp. holds
the lin e on
taxes in ’92
2 mill real estate
rate maintained
JENNIFER KOPF_____________
Lititz Record News Editor
Warwick Township supervisors
voted last week to maintain the cur­rent
2 mill real estate assessment for
the coming year. Those 2 mills, along
with the rest of township revenue,
will provide the basis for 1992’s
budget of just under $3 million.
• The budget’s largest expenditure
will be for police protection, with
$486,000 going toward a new cruis­er,
new weapons and salary increases
which are part of a negotiated
contract.
• Engineering fees will add
SI 12,000, including $20,000 for a
study of the old Reading Railroad
bed for conversion into trails.
• The Rothsville, Brunnerville and
Lititz fire companies will again
receive $24,000 for their equipment
fund. Now in its third year, the fund
provides access to larger sums of
money for the three companies that
serve Warwick Township; all three
must agree on a proposed expense
before the money is allocated.
• Road reconstruction is budget at
$179,000, with another $158,000 for
highway maintenance. Insurance, to
cover property, liability and work­man’s
compensation, will run
$104,000.
Much of the budget comment from
the audience centered around the
amount pledged to the Lititz Com­munity
Center ($5,500, up from
$5,120 in 1991) and to the Lititz
Public Library ($3,500, up from
$3,000 this year). While some argued
against contributing to the LCC,
others argued that they simply felt
the library’s share Should be higher
since its services are free. The library
does not charge dues, they pointed
out, so has no other real way to raise
revenue.
Supervisors Michael Brubaker
and Irel Buckwalter, however, noted
that while both organizations contri­bute
valuable services, the LCC’s
mortgage payments place a heavy
drain on its funds. Without that capi­ta
I debt, LCC President Richard Nuf-fort
contended, the center would be
running in the black.
It was with this particular debt in
mind that the supervisors voted, in a
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Photo by Jennifer Kopf
READY FOR CHRISTMAS — A drowsy Emily Larkin, bundled up against the cold, got a welcome
shoulder from Mom at the Community Christmas Tree lighting in downtown Lititz earlier in December
Emily, 1, is a daughter of Joe and Gail Larkin, Rothsville.
Lititz detective decides
‘It’s time to move on’
Lititz Police Officer Charles Shenenherger will retire Dec. 31
LORIN BEIDLER___________
Record Express Staff
At the end of this month the Lititz Police Department
will say good-bye to an institution — Officer Charles
Shenenberger will be leaving after 23 years on the force.
Shenenberger, who joined the Lititz Police Depart­ment
in 1968, bacame the department’s first full-time
detective in 1983. His detective duties will be handed
over to Officer Doug Shertzer when Shenenberger steps
down officially on Jan. 1.
While the growing complexity of police work has con­tributed
to Shenenberger’s desire to retire, the main rea­son
for his decision, he says, is that he is ready for a
change of pace.
“It got to the point where there were just so many
changes (in the law enforcement industry),” he says.
“There’s so much training required now — I was just
feeling that it’s time to move on.”
Shenenberger has not yet finalized his plans for 1992,
but he says he is considering “three or four things that
have cropped up.” He adds that full-time police work is
not in his future. “If I do anything related to police work,
it wouldn’t be full time.”
Shenenberger’s first taste of law enforcement work
came while he was in the U.S. Air Force. After graduat­ing
from Warwick, Shenenberger enlisted in the air force
and ended up becoming an A.P., a member of the air
force’s internal police service.
As a Warwick student Shenenberger had hoped to go
into farming and so studied in the vocational agriculture
program. When he got out of the service, however, he
quickly discovered how expensive getting into farming,
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‘Christmas in
Saudi’ is just a
memory in 1991
LORIN BEIDLER_____________
Record Express Staff
For the U.S. military personnel
who were activated for Operation
Desert Shield late last year, it is a tale
of two Christmases. One, spent in the
daily grind of military life in a desert
encampment, the hold of a ship or at
the controls of a fighter plane — the
next spent with family and friends,
back in the safety and comfort of
home.
Lititz resident Mark Brubaker is a
typical example of the thousands
who are rejoicing in the fact that they
won’t be spending a second Christ­mas
in the desert. For Brubaker, who
was recently discharged from the
United States Air Force, this holiday
season is extra special in that it is the
first in seven years that he has spent
with his family.
Brubaker, whose company was
among the first air force personnel to
be sent to Saudi Arabia last August,
describes his Christmas in the desert
as “just another day at the grinds­tone.”
While he and his company did
get a little holiday time off, he says,
“It was never like Christmas. It was
business as usual — nothing
special.”
The emotions that typify the
Christmas season were replaced,
Brubaker says, by restlessness. The
holidays, he recalls, found his com­pany,
along with most of the troops
already in the desert, restless and
“tired of waiting” for -the military
action they believed was coming.
“We just wanted to get it over with,”
Brubaker says.
It may have been less taxing for
Brubaker than for some of the reser­vists
as, after nearly six years in the
service, he was getting used to it
Brubaker, a 1985 Warwick gradu­ate,
joined the air force in late 1985.
After basic training in Texas, Bru­baker
underwent logistical training
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Fire co. looks for
curbing alternative
JENNIFER KOPF_____________
Lititz Record News Editor
The wheels of government can be
slow to start turning — but once they
begin, they can be equally as difficult
to stop.
So it seems in Rothsville, where
the fire company is trying to demons­trate
to the state why some sidewalk
and curbing requirements not only
don’t make much sense, but are
downright dangerous.
The Rothsville Fire Company is,
like many other property owners in
Rothsville, in the midst of a sidewalk
and curbing renovation project The
plans drawn up for the fire com­pany’s
portion on the north side of
Main Street Rothsville show a short
section of sidewalk and curbing in
the fire company’s driveway, some­thing
that the fire company asserts
will constitute an obstacle for fire
apparatus trying to respond to calls.
“There’s nothing there right now,”
said Rothsville Fire Chief Claude
Young Jr., “and that’s the way we’d
like to keep it.”
Young explained that, if the five
bay doors of the fire station are num­bered
one through five from left to
right, plans indicate a sidewalk with
curbing would be located near Main
Street in front of door number one.
That required walk, Young said, “has
something to do with (slate) drive­way
regulations.”
As it now stands, the apparatus
leaving the westernmost door, num­ber
one, can cut the comer a bit if it
must make a right turn out of the
parking lot to head west. There are
three parking spots at the western­most
edge of the company’s lot,
Young said, but even with these
“chief spots” filled, there’s; enough
room to swing the rig around.
That leeway would disappear,
according to the company, if this new
stretch of sidewalk and curbiing were
to be installed. Apparatus urying to
turn right out of the statioin would
find it impossible to do so umless the
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H isto ric a l Foundation th an k s ‘le a d e r sh ip 9g iv e rs
LORIN BEIDLER______________________________
Record Express Staff
The Lititz Historical Foundation took time out in the
midst of its fund raising efforts to say thank you to a num­ber
of local organizations that have given the founda­tion’s
Lititz Museum capital campaign a hardy kick-start.
The foundation this week recognized the Lititz Mutual
Insurance Company, Wilbur Chocolate Company and
the Brossman Foundation as founders in the capital cam­paign.
Founders are those persons or organizations that
have pledged $15,000 or more to the project
'ITicy were just three of the 11 organizations that have
responded to the foundation’s pleas to local businesses
lor what it calls leadership contributions. When the
foundation began the campaign to raise funds for the
renovation of its Lititz Museum, it first sought the sup­port
of local businesses before turning to the community
at large. The foundation initiated the latter stage of the
campaign just several weeks ago.
Filling out the list of leadership contributors are Feder­al
Mogul, which the foundation has listed as a builder;
and the Steinman Foundation (The Lititz Record
Express), Farmer’s First Bank, Graybill’s Dairy, VFW
Post 1463, American Legion Post 56, Miller and Miller
CPAs and Mr. and Mrs. R. William Spacht, all of whom
are listed as partners. Builders are those organizations
which have contributed between $9,000 and $14,999 and
partners are those contributors which pledged between
$3,000 and $8,999.
According to Henry R. Gibbel, chairman of the found­ation’s
capital campaign, the foundation has received
commitments for more than $196,000, $110,000 of
which has already been received in cash. The $196,000
represents about 60 percent of the foundation’s total goal
of $325,000. Gibbel adds that the building has now been
paid for, and that all additional income will go toward
renovation of the property.
In addition to monetary commitments, numerous peo­ple
or organizations have promised gifts-in-kind, such as
labor, materials and other services that might come in
handy during the course of renovations.
The foundation is sticking to its original plan of having
at least part of the project ready to open Memorial Day
weekend. Helen Miksch is heading up plans to develop a
special time-line exhibit on the history of Lititz, which
will top the foundation’s wish list High priority is also
going to the development of four other exhibit rooms and
moving the foundation’s gift shop from the Johannes
Mueller House to the museum. How much of the project
is completed by Memorial Day depends largely on how
much money can be raised.
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me Lititz Historical Foundation this week expressed its gratitude to the organizations thathavte so far
given leadershipgifts in the foundation's capital campaign. Representing the three largest contributors thus
far are Anne B. Sweigart, chairman, president and CEO of Denver Ephrata Telephone Company aind rep­resentative
of the Mr. and Mrs. William F. Brossman Charitable Foundation; Henry H. Gibbel, president of
the Lititz Mutual Insurance Company and William J. Shaughnessy, president of Wilbur Chocolate Coimpanv
Thanking the contributors on behalf of the foundation was Henry R. Gibbel, right, chair of the foundation’s
capital campaign.
THIS WEEK IN THE RECORD EXPRESS
Warwick girls hoopsters win two and lose one
The Warwick ladies dropped
their first game of the season,
but it took a double overtime
at Solanco before the issue
was resolved with the Lady
Mules finishing on top 55-52.
Earner in the week, Warwick
downed Dallastown 53-41 and
it crushed Ephrata 53-34.
Read more on page 8.
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Holiday issues of The Lititz
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23 and Monday, Dec. 30.
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holiday season
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Thank you!
THE INDEX
Business 20
Church 118-19
Classified 2!5-27
Editorial 4
Lunch Menu 6
Manheim 22
Obituaries 2
Out of the Past 4
School News 6
Social 16-17
) Sports 8-11
WEATHER: Continued cold
Thursday, but a bit milder by
Saturday.
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