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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 (Turn to Page 24) 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, (Turn to Page 24) ‘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 (Turn to Page 24) 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 (Turn to Page 24) 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. (Turn to Page 24) -j-L- . .... L,. . . . _ . . rnoio oy Lorin oemter 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. Early deadlines for the Holiday issues of The Lititz Record Express will be printed and mailed on Monday, Dec. 23 and Monday, Dec. 30. Deadlines for editorial copy and retail and classified display ads will be Thursday at 5 holiday season p.m., Dec. 19 and 26. Classified reader ads will be accepted until 10 a.m., Dec. 20 and 27. Please plan ahead for these spec\a\ PeaPYmes. 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. « iBiiwiigiww
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Transcript | 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 (Turn to Page 24) 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, (Turn to Page 24) ‘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 (Turn to Page 24) 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 (Turn to Page 24) 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. (Turn to Page 24) -j-L- . .... L,. . . . _ . . rnoio oy Lorin oemter 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. Early deadlines for the Holiday issues of The Lititz Record Express will be printed and mailed on Monday, Dec. 23 and Monday, Dec. 30. Deadlines for editorial copy and retail and classified display ads will be Thursday at 5 holiday season p.m., Dec. 19 and 26. Classified reader ads will be accepted until 10 a.m., Dec. 20 and 27. Please plan ahead for these spec\a\ PeaPYmes. 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. « iBiiwiigiww |
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