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A tribute to Male ;;
Friends, fans and coaches remember John Male, one of the finest ||
athletes in Warwick history. Please turn to Page 8 to read more. j;]
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THE INDEX .
Business 18 School News 6'
Church 16 Social 14-15
Classified 22-25 Sports 8-11
Editorial 4 it
Manheim 20 WEATHER: Mostly cloudy
Obituaries 2 Thursday with a chance of
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Lititz square
L ititz S p r in g s P a rk B o a rd
agrees to m a in ta in square
CONNIE B U C K W A L T E R _______________________________
Record Express Staff
Last December’s creche controversy raised the question of who owns the
triangular parcel of land known as the borough square.
The Moravian Congregation of Lititz recently found out that the square is
theirs. The discovery was made through research by Lancaster attorney John
Pyfer. Pyfer volunteered his services to the borough on the Nativity issue after
the American Civil Liberties Union, acting on behalf of at least one local resi­dent’s
complaint, asked the borough several days before last Christmas to
remove the creche from the square because of a possible Constitutional
violation.
At a congregational meeting held Sunday,-August 14, the Moravian con­gregation
voted to enter into a Declaration of Trust that allows the Board of
Trustees of the Lititz Springs Park to maintain, operate and develop the square
for the benefit ofthe residents of Lititz. On Tuesday night, the park board also
approved the declaration.
The new Declaration of Trust is similar to the existing declaration that the
Moravian church established in 1956 with the park board for the care of the
Lititz Springs Park.
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Traffic concerns
fire, ambulance
and police crews
CONNIE BUCKWALTER
BRUCE MORGAN
STEPHEN SEEBER___________
Record Express Staff
Putting personal opinions aside,
emergency and law enforcement per­sonnel
in Warwick Township and the
surrounding areas have considered
the potential impact that the prop­osed
Wal-Mart store along Route
501 could have on their services.
The agency representatives were
careful not to choose sides on the
Wal -Mart issue but merely to consid­er
the proposed store plans and to
comment on how those plans could
conceivably affect them.
According to Warwick Township
Police Chief Alfred Olsen, traffic is
his department’s utmost concern.
“A major consideration would be
traffic,” he said. “Certainly whenev­er
you increase resident hours you
increase traffic.”
Although the township presently
does not have specified patrol areas,
Olsen said that if the store goes
through and if traffic increases to the
point where it became difficult for
his department to respond, then they
would possibly need to assign a pat­rol
car to the immediate area.
“Wal-Mart is not unique in that it’s
a retail operation like any other oper­ation.
It just happens to be bigger,”
he said, noting that he did not antici­pate
any unusual type calls for
service.
“The only real concern for the
township police department is traff­ic,”
Olsen said.
Likewise, Lititz Borough Police
Chief Douglas Shertzer said that
Wal-Mart would pose a “tremendous
traffic burden,” which only adds an
element of difficulty as the depart­ment
deals with more accidents.
“All emergency services are going
to be affected as far as response time
is concerned,” said Shertzer.
Lititz Fire Company No. 1 Police
Chief Jeff Siegrist said that he felt
traffic would have a relatively minor
impact on the service provided by the '
fire department. He agreed that
response times could be a concern for
firemen answering a call in their own
vehicles but noted, “people get out of
the way for firetrucks.”
People also seem to get out of the
way for ambulances — according to
Warwick Community Ambulance
President Cindy Lash and Rothsville
Ambulance Secretary and EMT
Crew Chief Floss Morgan.
“People are really good about it,”
Lash said.
With lights and sirens flashing,
Lash said it takes about 10-15
minutes to get into the Lancaster City
hospitals from Lititz. However, she
doesn’t discount the traffic problem
on Route 501.
“Traffic is bad on Route 501 per­iod,”
she said. “We’re always con­cerned
about traffic.”
Still, Lash said that she does not
envision a Wal-Mart store on Route
501 as dramatically impacting the
ambulance services.
Morgan echoed many of Lash’S
thoughts when she said that she felt
that the proposed Wal-Mart probably
would not hurt the ambulance
services.
“We drive very defensively but
very seldom do we have a problem,”
she said. “People are very
courteous.”
Morgan said that in other commer­cial
areas like Warwick Center and
the K-Mart in Ephrata, the ambu­lance
crew rarely has a problem get­ting
through. And when driving
heavily travelled roads, Morgan said
that cars on both sides of the roadway
pull over to give the ambulance safe
and easy access to reach their
destination.
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Pfeiffer family donates flag to school
S ym b o l to fly
over newest
elementary
CONNIE BUCKWALTER
Record Express Staff
Three generations of the Reinhold
F. Pfeiffer Family attended Tuesday
night’s Warwick School Board meet­ing
to honor their grandfather, father
and husband by donating a flag to the
district.
The flag presentation was made by
Reinhold Pfeiffer’s widow, Dorothy,
her son, Jeff Pfeiffer and his family
and her daughter, Denise Bedger,
and her family. The flag will be
flown above the new John R. Bon-field
Elementary School.
A World War H veteran, Reinhold
Pfeiffer died in 1991. His remaining
family wanted to memorialize him
by flying a flag above the school in
his memory.
In a brief presentation speech to
the board, Jeff Pfeiffer explained
how committed his father was to
children and his country and he
described the deep respect his father
had for families and family values.
Dr. Gail E. Ekstrand, principal of
John R. BonfieldElementary School,
accepted the flag on behalf of the
school and noted that Kristen Pfeif­fer,
one of Reinhold Pfeiffer’s grand­children
who will attend the new
school, will help the staff to hoist the
flag when school begins.
Wallace Hofferth, board presi­dent,
presented the family with a cer­tificate
of appreciation and Dr. John
R. Bonfield, district superintendent,
also thanked them for their donation.
Also during the meeting the board
approved a program change and fur­lough
for the business education
program. Bonfield explained that
because of declining student enroll­ments
in business education courses,
Photo by Connie Buckwalter
Dr. Gail E. Ekstrand (standing, right), John R. Bonfield Elementary principal, accepts the American flag
donated by Dorothy Pfeiffer (standing, left) on behalf of her husband, Reinhold. Dorothy’s son and daughter
and their families also took part in the presentation. They include (sitting, l-r) Heidi Bedger, Amy Pfeiffer,
Kristen Pfeiffer, Shannon Pfeiffer; (standing, l-r) Judy Pfeiffer, Jeff Pfeiffer, Adam Bedger, Denise Bedger.
the district reduced the number of
courses offered. The decline has also
necessitated the furlough of a part-time
business education teacher,
which will result in a cost savings of
about $17,000 for the district, Bon­field
said.
Should business education class
enrollments increase, the furloughed
teacher would have the right to return
to her position, he noted.
‘ In another personnel-related mat­ter,
the board approved the resigna­tion
of Beth A. Bond as athletic train­er
for personal reasons. The district
will provide athletic training services
through an agreement with Lancaster
General Hospital, which was
approved during the meeting. The
agreement states that LGH will pro­vide
trainer services when necessary,
not to exceed $17,766. Bonfield said
that figure allows for about 900 hours
of service and covers the district for
liability.
As it does annually, the board
again approved legislative priorities
that they will submit to the Pennsyl­vania
School Boards Association for
legislative action during the upcom­ing
year.
The priorities include support of
legislation: relieving the impact of
the Prevailing Wage Act on local
governments and making the privati­zation
concept of school construction
available to school entities in the
state and establishing a subsidy for
the lease/purchase of schools com­parable
to that provided for addition­al
construction; permitting individu­als,
other than traditionally certifi­ca
ted p e rso n n e l, who meet
pre-determined qualifications to
serve in instructional, supervisory,
administrative and other professional
capacities within public , schools;
requiring a majority of an entire bar­gaining
unit to vote by secret ballot in
order to authorize a work stoppage.
Additional priorities include sup­port
legislation: opposing legislation
providing direct financial aid to state
residents enrolled in non-public
schools; authorizing districts to fur­lough
professional personnel for eco­nomic
reasons and establishing a fur­lough
procedure for professional
employees based first on proficiency
ratings and then on seniority; oppos­ing
legislation expanding retirement
benefits without an increase in the
employee contribution rate to fund
the new benefit; opposing legislation
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Photo by Connie Buckwalter
REACHING FOR THE SUN — Six-year-old Nicholas Ruhl, son of
Donald and Leslie Ruhl, 121 S. Spruce St., Lititz, never imagined the
'unflower that he gave his mother for Mother’s Day this year would
,i grow so high so soon. But, thanks to his mother’s diligent care of the
l plant, the sunflower has grown to almost 12 feet in height. When
I Nicholas gave the sunflower to his mother, it could fit in a small styro-
J foam cup.
Future Wal-Mart action
The Warwick Township Planning
Commission will hold its Wednes­day,
August 24 meeting in the War­wick
Middle School, starting at 7:30
p.m.
Included on the planning commis­sion’s
agenda will be the preliminary
plans for the proposed Wal-Mart
supercènter off Route 501 in War­wick
Township.
; Officials decided to hold the meet­ing
at the middle school to accomo­date
anticipated interest in the
agenda.
Also relating to Wal-Mart’s prop­osed
store in Warwick Township, the
Concerned Lititz Citizens group will
hold a vigil protesting the retailer’s
plans on Saturday, August 20, start-ingat
11 a.m. near the proposed store
site.
Participants should park in the
field on Millport across from the
Stauffers of Kissel Hill, not in the
SKH lot. They can then walk up to
the vigil site.
The porch rail at this home was dislodged as a result of the accident.
Van damages property
on South Broad Street
Several homes and yards along the 300 block of South Broad Street in Lititz
Borough sustained minor damage after a speeding van came over the curb ear­ly
Saturday morning.
The driver of the van, Angel Figeroa, age 23, of 421 Cedar St., Reading,
faces charges from both Lititz Borough and Warwick Township Police
Departments stemming from the accident and the series of events leading up
to it.
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