Lititz Record Express

              T H U R S D A Y , J a n u a r y 9 , 1 9 9 2
Lititz Record Express
115TH YEAR LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA 28 Pages- No. 38 30 cents |
Lititz targeted as one o f
county’s ‘growth areas’
LORIN BEIDLER
Photo by Jennifer Kopf
’TIS THE SEASON NO LONGER — Another Christmas tree hits the shredder Tuesday morning as the
Lititz Borough Public Works Department makes its way north on South Broad Street. Evergreens of all
shapes and persuasions were left by the curbside for borough pickup earlier this week, and have now
entered their second life as mulch.
Record Express Staff
The Lititz Borough Planning Commission Tuesday
night got a preliminary look at a plan, currently being for­mulated
by the Lancaster County Planning Commission,
that could revolutionize the way growth occurs in the
county.
County planning commission representatives Kather­ine
Daniels, Scott Standish and Mike Donan briefed the
local commission at their monthly meeting on what coun­ty
planners are calling “urban growth boundaries.” Cur­rently
under development, a new county comprehensive
plan would set aside 13 areas, most centered around
existing boroughs, that would be targeted as desirable
areas for directing future growth. One of those 13 areas
completely engulfs the borough of Lititz and includes
much of Warwick Township.
According to Standish, the county planners are cur­rently
in the second of a four-phase process of preparing
and implementing a new comprehensive plan. Phase one
of the project, which was completed last year, specified
12 goals and more than 180 objectives for planning the
county’s future.
Out of phase one came the idea for the growth manage­ment
plan now being presented to county municipalities.
Part of that growth plan calls for the creation of the 13
urban concentration areas.
The lines that delineate these concentration areas,
Standish added, will finally be determined jointly by
county planners working hand in hand with municipal
planning commissions, council people, supervisors and/
or zoning officials.
After targeting expected population numbers for the
next 20 years, Daniels said, county planners determined
likely land use needs, centering urban concentration
areas around regions that already have necessary services
— such as water, sewer, fire and police protection, etc. —
in place, or are scheduled to get such services in the near
future. Agricultural areas and environmentally sensitive
areas would be carefully restricted.
The county planners are now going out to the munici­palities
which would lie within these concentration areas
seeking their input on refining the placement of the final
urban growth boundary lines. Municipalities are being
asked where they think growth should be directed and
which areas would cause problems for them. Because
more than one municipality often makes up one growth
concentration area — i.e. Lititz Borough and Warwick
Township — the county planners are encouraging coop­eration
between such neighbors.
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Warwick Twp. gears
Sets fir s t meeting
o f rec committee,
ag preserve session
up for 1992 action
JENNIFER KOPF
Lititz Record News Editor
New Warwick Township supervisor Bruce
R. Bucher, and incumbent supervisor Michael
W. Brubaker, were sworn in before Monday’s
night’s reorganization meeting at the township
municipal building. District Justice James
Garrett administered the oath of office to the
two men, who won their seats on the five-member
board in last November’s election.
Once the meeting began, the township
supervisors re-elected James N. Klopp as
chairman of their board. Riggs Kohler will
serve as vice chairman for the upcoming year.
As part of establishing responsibilities for
1992, it was resolved that the following indivi­duals
and firms will fulfill the duties listed:
• Robert C. Smith, township secretary/
treasurer and zoning officer;
• Marlene Harris, assistant secretary/
treasurer,
• Morgan, Hallgren, Crosswell & Kane;
William C. Crosswell, township solicitor;
• Herbert, Rowland & Grubic, Inc., (HRG),
township engineer;
• Glenn Nelson, chairma of the vacancy
board;
• Amos Miller, sewage enforcement officer;
• Alfred Olsen, chief of police;
• Karl “Jim” Schmidt, roadmaster.
On standing township boards, Dale Fetter
was reappointed to a four-year term on the
planning commission; Dane St. Clair, a former
zoning hearing board alternate, was appointed
to a five-year term on that board. W. Scott
Cummings, a former zoning hearing board
member, was appointed as the hearing board’s
alternate, with a term expiring at the end of
1996.
In other municipal personnel business, the
resignation of Jay Ebersole, planning commis­sion
member, was accepted with regrets. Eber­sole,
a 10-year member of the commission, is
moving from Warwick to Penn Township and
will be ineligible to serve on the Warwick
commission.
Supervisors also accepted Bruce Bucher’s
letter of resignation from the Warwick Town­ship
Municipal Authority Bucher, the newest
supervisor, will now serve as the board’s liai­son
with the municipal authority.
Other liaison responsibilities include:
Administration: James Klopp;
Public Works: Riggs Kohler;
Police Department: Ian Shields;
Planning Commission: Mike Brubaker,
Zoning Hearing Board: Riggs Kohler;
Recreation Advisory Committee: Mike
Brubaker.
The first meeting of the recently formed
recreation committee will be held this coming
Monday, Jan. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the municipal
building. According to Brubaker, this will be a
time when committee members can establish
frequency of meetings and procedures as they
see fit
Other upcoming meetings include a publ­ic
session with Tom Daniels, director of the
county agricultural preserve board. Supervi­sor
Brubaker had earlier suggested the meet­ing
as a way of enabling property owners in
the township to get answers to ag preserve
questions.
The township has since identified 188 par­cels
of land in the township of 10 or more
acres, which supervisors said may equate to
140 or 150 property owners. While the ses­sion,
which will take place Thursday, Feb. 6 at
7:30 p.m., is open to anyone, these larger land
parcels are more suited to preservation. The
meeting will tentatively take place at the
Rothsville Fire Hall, if it is available at that
time, in order to accommodate a larger crowd.
The next township supervisors meeting will
be held Wednesday, Jan. 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the
township municipal building, Clay Road.
Gibble wins
county GOP
leadership
Local attorney Stephen R.
Gibble has been elected to suc­ceed
H. Byron Showers as chair­man
of the Lancaster County
Republicans.
Gibble, who announced his
candidacy for the position in mid-
December, was the only candidate
for the job. He “won by acclama­tion”
in Tuesday night’s county
GOP polling, according to James
Bednar, local Republican
committeeman.
Gibble, 35, also currently
serves as president of the War­wick
Association of Churches, as
well as the Lancaster County
Association of Churches. He is a
partner in the law firm of Shirk,
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Solution in sight
for fire company’s
curbing dilemma
JENNIFER KOPF__________
Lititz Record News Editor
A little flexibility has crept into
the sidewalk plans for the area in
front of Rothsville Fire Hall,
much to the fire company’s relief.
Now, they won’t be forced to
drive over regular-height curbing
to exit their driveway during fire
calls, something Rothsville Fire
Chief Claude Young Jr. told the
Record Express last, month could
easily cause the fire engines to tip
over. Several conversations
between the fire company, local
elected representatives, Pen-nDOT
and the township engineer­ing
firm may have come up with a
viable option to a dangerous
situation.
Initially, a stretch of curbing
and sidewalk would have been
placed in the center of the space
fire engines now use to exit and
enter the fire hall. Nothing is there
now, Young noted, and regulation
curbing would have hindered
engines from exiting the western­most
bay and heading west on
Main Street. As it is, he said, it’s a
comer that requires a sharp turn
even without the extra obstacle of
curbing.
Now, though, PennDOT is
agreeable to seeing new plans
drawn up which indicate more of
a slope down into the driveway,
instead of a sharp, abrupt curb.
“The way it was described to me,
it would kind of resemble a hand­icapped
ramp,” Young said, “and
maybe the ramps could be longer,
something like seven instead of
five feet” in length. This, he said,
would allow more leeway for
engines to drive over the sidewalk
and curbing without negotiating a
significant dropoff height.
Fire company officials, along
with township manager Robert
Smith, traveled Jan. 2 to Harris­burg
and talked over the problem
with two PennDOT officials for
about an hour. “They more or less
had worked this (option) out
beforehand,” Young said of Pen­nDOT,
noting that the state agen­cy
had recent photos of the fire
station site and could determine
what suggestions might be
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C o u n c i l w e l c o m e s f r e s h m e n m e m b e r s
i t s f i r s t s e s s i o n o f t h e n e w y e a r
LORIN BEIDLER
Record Express Staff
Visitors to the Lititz Borough Council re-organization meeting Monda
night found two relatively new faces flanking councilman Russell Pettyjohi
They were Kevin Zartman and Dennis Stuckey.
Freshman council members Zartman and Stuckey were sworn into offict
along with incumbent Ruth Fry McKennon, by Mayor Roy Clair just prior t
Monday’s meeting. Stuckey replaces Robert Hershey as a representative c
the borough s third ward while Zartman is taking outgoing councilman Sar
Hess’ second ward seat Hess had served on council since July of 1986 an
Hershey, since 1988.
Photos by Lorin Beid
Mayor Roy Clair (right) administers the oath of office to new coun
member Kevin Zartman.
Clair then presided over the opening of the re-organization meeting and the
nomination of council officers. Russell Pettyjohn was again appointed presi­dent
of the council on a unanimous vote. Long-time councilman and past
council president Clyde Tshudy was named to replace Hess as vice president
and McKennon, who has served on council since 1986, was named chairman
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As Council President Russell Pettyjohn looks on, Dennis Stuckey
(right) signs on for his first term on Lititz Borough Council
THIS WEEK IN THE RECORD EXPRESS THE INDEX
to hammer McCaskey
The Warwick Warriors suf­fered
a heartbreaking 46-44
loss to Wilson in their first
game of the week, but they
bounced back nicelyfrom that
game ag a in s t McCaskey,
jumping out to an early lead
and maintaining it throughout
the game for a 79-60 win. Read
more on page 10.
Warwick students
attend music tryouts
Several Warwick musicians
recently performed at district
and county musictryouts. These
students will now prepare for the
upcoming Orchestra, Band and
Chorus Festivals. See pictures
of these students on paqes 6
and 7.
Dolphins of Warwick
provide vital service
A listening ear, say the Dol­phins
of Warwick, is the most
important service that can be
given in their ministry with the
aging. Operated by the War­wick
Association of Chur­ches,
their program provides
v isitors into area nursing
homes. Read more on page
24.
Business 17
Church 16
Classified 20-23
Editorial 4
Lunch Menu 7
Manheim 16
Obituaries 2
Out of the Past 4
School News 6
Social 14
Sports 8-11
WEATHER: A chance of rain
Thursday, fair Friday and Satur­day.
Lows all three days near 30.