Lititz Record Express

              THURSDAY, October 22, 1992
Lititz Record Express
I 116TH YEÄR LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA 28 Pages-No7 27 30 cents
S u b com m itte e s g iv e u p d a te on YRE r e se a r ch
Opponents ask for details on year-round systems that have failed
LORIN BEIDLER____________________
Record Express Staff
The Warwick School District’s year-round
education study committee reported back
Monday night on how districts that have tried
year-round education (YRE) have solved
problems with the new system.
, Their message seemed to be that many of
the most seemingly daunting problems can be
solved.
But several critics of the YRE showed up
at the meeting, held in the Warwick Middle
School auditorium, to demand that the com­mittee
look at both sides of the issue. Instead
of just looking at school districts that have
made YRE work, the committee should look
at school districts where the system has fail­ed,
the critics charged.
The committee was founded last year for
the purpose or formulating a recommenda­tion
to the Warwick School Board on whether
or not YRE is feasible here. The concept is
being considered as an alternative to building
a fifth elementary school in the latter part of
the decade. As each school building can
handle an additional third again as many stu­dents
under YRE, the theory goes, Warwick
could postpone building for several years.
The committee, which is made up of some
70 volunteers from the community, is divided
into four subcommittees with each subcom­mittee
assigned to study a different aspect of
YRE. So far, the four subcommittees have
formulated a list of potential problems with
YRE in their given areas. In recent inter­views,
committee members asked officials
from schools around the country that have
used year-round education how their schools
have dealt with these various problems.
In all, officials from 16 schools from
across the country responded to more than 15
questions.
For instance, the subcommittee that is
studying how YRE would affect family and
community issues asked year-round schools
how they handled the problem of assigning
students to the various tracks. In most YRE
schools, the year is divided into four tracks
with three-quarters of the student body in
school at any given time and one-quarter, or
one track, being on vacation.
Most schools reported few problems with
assigning students to tracks. Several schools
mentioned that around 85 percent of all fami­lies
get their first choice with the remaining
15 percent getting their second choice. A
waiting list is often established for students
who want to switch. In some cases the tracks
were laid out geographically, which would
cut down on transportation costs, as some bus
routes would presumably not have to be run
all year round.
Another question raised by the family and
community issues group regarded the diffi­culty
in attending summer camps and enrich­ment
activities that could result from YRE.
Again most schools reported few problems.
Many added that the organizations that supp­ly
such programs have been very flexible.
Perhaps the most important question asked
by the student issues subcommittee regarded
academic performance. Most of the schools
polled responded that academic performance
either increased or changed very little when
YRE was introduced. One school noted that
less review time was needed with YRE
because the students are not off-track for as
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T r ick o r T r e a t
With Halloween next week, anticipation by some youngsters about
“what to be” is running high. We’ve included a schedule below of when the
little creatures can roam local streets in search of goodies:
Lititz Borough
□ Friday, Oct. 30, 6-8 p.m.
Elizabeth Township
□ Friday, Oct. 30, 6-8 p.m.
Penn Township
□ Friday, Oct. 30, 6-8 p.m.
Warwick Township
□ Thursday, Oct. 29, 6-8 p.m.
Parents in Warwick Township are asked to note that Warwick Town­ship’s
trick-or-treat night has been changed from a date announced earlier.
Halloween parades will be held Monday, Oct. 26 in Lititz and Friday,
Oct. 30 in Roths ville; see articles in this week’s Record Express for details.
More th a n 1,000 d is tr ic t
voters a d d ed to rolls
IENNIFER KOPF_____________
Jtitz Record News Editor
For three weeks this fall, local resi-lents
registered to vote at stands
«•ganized by the Warwick Area
tepublican Committee. The drive, it
vas announced this week, added
1,046 eligible Warwick School Dis-ricl
residents to the voting rolls.
The organization’s goal was to
ncrease the percentage of registered
jligible voters by 10 percent, from
ipproximately 54 percent to 64 per­cent
— a goal that was met. Saying
hey didn’t care what party voters
registered with, volunteers spent the
latter part of three weeks staking out
spots on the sidewalk, at stores and
walking door to door.
By the registration deadline, they
had a total of 1,562 registrations,
address and name changes and party
changes to submit at the county,
courthouse. Nearly 67 percent of
those who took advantage of the
sign-ups were residents of the local
school district.
“Quality leadership for the nation
starts at the grassroots level,” said
WARC Chairman Dean Hoffer this
week. “We felt the most important
fact (in starting this drive) is that peo­ple
become involved on the local
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Sutter’s
Lititz Museum
expands its
collection
LORIN BEIDLER_____________
Record Express Staff
Perhaps the most famous photo­graph
of Lititz’ most famous resi­dent,
General John A. Sutter, shows
him sitting in an old upholstered
chair in what appears to be his gar­den.
A chair that some believe to be
the one in the picture is now on dis­play
at the Lititz Museum, 145 E.
Main St.
The chair, given to the museum by
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dull of Lan­caster,
is the latest acquisition made
by the Lititz Historical Foundation,
which owns and operates the
museum, for its General Sutter room.
A small room along the western edge
of the museum, it now features a vari­ety
of artifacts which were owned by
the Sutters.
Sutter was a preeminent leader in
the settling of California, and actual­ly
founded the city of Sacramento,
setting up a trading post there long
before the area was settled. He is cre­dited
with helping to pave the way
for the gold rush. Sutter retired to
Lititz to be near his grandchildren
who attended John Beck’s Academy
and Linden Hall, and to be near Lititz
Spring water, which was rumored to
be good for his cronic rheumatism.
While Ed Crawl, vice president
Hiking through autumn in the
area’s new Speedwell Forge Park
JENNIFER KOPF___________
! Lititz Record News Editor
With the Hammer Creek provid­ing
a quiet and steady rush of sound,
with autumn leaves and grasses
crunching underfoot and a brisk note
in the air, Saturday morning was just
the time for a leisurely ramble along
a new trail at Speedwell Forge Coun­ty
Park.
More than two dozen people met
in Brickerville for the hike, an event
scheduled by naturalist Clyde Gam-ber
and the Lancaster County Parks
and Rec Department. Every level of
walker, from sneakers and jeans to
well-broken-in hiking boots and
walking staffs, were represented.
It is, essentially, a trail which can
be followed by even novice walkers;
with the exception of a few banks and
some narrow sections of stream to
cross, the progression from meadow
to wooded bottom lands to a “hill
with a view” is steady and easily
manageable for just about everyone.
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Naturalist Clyde McMillan-Gamber identifies plant life for particip­ants
in the Speedwell Forge Park hike.
chairs find a new home
Ed Crawl stands behind a chair that once belonged to General John Sutter. The chair is the most recent
addition to the Lititz Museum’s Sutter Room.
and director of acquisitions for the According to Growl, when either chair to Edna Snavely, who in turn
foundation, doubts that the Sutter or his wife died (he died in sold it to the Dulls,
museum’s chair is the one in the 1880, his wife, the following year), The chair is just one of several
photograph, he says there is little many of the couple’s effects were generous gifts that have made their
doubt that the chair belonged to Sut- sold at a public auction. The chair way to the Sutter room. An ornate
ter. The chair nearly matches the one that now belongs to the LHF was pur- bed that was used by Mr. and Mrs.
in the photo and may have been a chased at that time by Harry Gable Sutter was given to the museum by
duplicate from a set of several in the Sr. who passed it on to his son, Lin- Dr. and Mrs. Richard Bender. A large
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YRE, approval of Grosh Field
plans top Warwick’s agenda
JENNIFER KOPF_____________
Lititz Record News Editor
The school board this week heard
again from year-round education
opponents, and the Warwick Lights
Up drive got a boost from the high
school student council.
With Monday’s year-round educa­tion
meeting fresh in their minds,
several local residents who oppose
such a move reiterated their feelings
to the school board Tuesday night.
Major areas of concern, said resi­dent
Karen Fund after the meeting,
center around the facts that there are
no guarantees the public will vote by
referendum on this issue, and that the
elected school board is not bound by
the recommendation made by the
volunteer year-round education
committee.
“That disturbs me,” Fund said
Tuesday night, “because this is such
a major issue to face the
community.”
It was also announced Tuesday
night that the Warwick High School
Student Council has chosen to donate
interest from its accumulated funds
to the football stadium projects. With
more than $20,000 in their account,
the students will donate $1,000 a year
for three years to the WLU
campaign.
Those projects took another step
forward this week, with school board
approval for an expansion of the con­cession
stand and the installation of
public, handicapped-accessible
restrooms at Grosh Field. WLU rep­resentatives
gained unanimous board
approval for a proposal greatly simi­lar
to one presented at the Oct. 6
Committee of the Whole meeting.
Changes to the initial proposal (see
Oct. 8 Record Express) are minor;
most board discussion earlier this
month stemmed from an original
proposal to create a room for the vis­iting
team at halftime adjacent to the
concession stand. That space will
still be added, but it will be used as
storage for the present.
The cost for the restroom portion
of the project will be covered by a
$16,000 donation made earlier this
month by Lititz VFW Post 1463.
In other business, it was noted by
board member Madelyn Buckwalter
that the trial date for the Lititz Com­munity
Center v. Sylvan Pools has
been changed. Originally set for this
past Monday, it has been postponed
to December. Warwick’s swim team
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WHS library expands
hours, opens to public
As of tonight, there’s a new spot for research and study in Lititz.
Beginning Thursday, Oct. 22, the Warwick High School library
will be open on Thursday evenings from 6:30 until 8:30 p.m. All
services, including research and book circulation, will be available
to students and staff of the district.
In addition, community residents may use the library as a
research facility; circulation services will not be available for the
general public at this time.
THIS WEEK IN THE RECORD EXPRESS THE INDEX
Lititz and Rothsville
set for annual parades
If it’s Halloween time, it
must be parade season in
Lititz and Rothsville. The Lititz
Lions Halloween Parade will
be held on Monday, Oct. 26,
and the 36th annual Rothsville
Halloween Parade will be held
Friday, Oct. 30. Read more on
page 28.
Warwick earns playoff
The Lady Warriors’ field hock­ey
team guaranteed itself of a
District playoff berth by upend­ing
Township 2-1 in overtime
last week. Julie Oakes scored to
tie the game, and Emily Oakes
scored the game-winner in OT.
Read more on page 8.
berth with win over Twp. Local clinic opens
branch office in Lititz
A Lancaster-based clinic of
l ic e n s e d p s y c h o lo g i s t s
recently opened a branch
office in Lititz. This branch,
which was actually founded
about two years ago in con­junction
with Cornerstone
Family Health Assoc., is now a
completely separate entity.
Read more on page 22.
Business 22
Church 18
Classified 24-27
Editorial 4
Lunch Menu 7
Manheim 20
Obituaries 2
Out of the Past 4
School News 6-7
Social 16-17
Sports 8-11
WEATHER: Thursday, mostly
sunny. Fair Friday. ‘Saturday,
chance of showers.