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223 seniors gra<
at Manheim Get
Graduates a; Mi
Central High School r-their
diplomas on Jun
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with reflections of fhi
a chieveme nts aria
goals. See Page 20.
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Two Manheim Borough
businesses, Fenner Drives
and Bond 'Ucibies, am itJctiimiy
up to spark Manheim’s indus­trial
growth, with a $1.2 miliicn
expansion project. Page e.-
Warwick teachers pact OK’d
5-year contract extension approved through 2002
RICHARD REITZ ÊÉ
Record Express Editor
WARWICK SCHOOL DIS­TRICT
•— Teachers in the Warwick
School District have a contract that
will carry them into the 2lst century.
On Tuesday the Warwick School
Board unanimously ratified a rene­gotiation
of the current contract for
the 1996-97 school year, plus a five-year
extension through the 2001-02
school year.
The new contract, which is effec­tive
when the current contract
expires in July 1997, will result in
teachers receiving 3.6 percent salary
increases in the first year, 3.95 per­cent
during the second and third
years, and 3.5 percent over the final
We now have labor peace until the next
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two school years.
In the upcoming school year, the
last year of the current contract, the
teachers will receive a 4.6 percent
pay increase.
The average yearly increase over
the five-year term of the contract
extension is $1,847.
The base starting salary for a
teacher in the Warwick School Dis­trict
for the 1996-97 school year is
$30,635. Under the new contract, the
starting salary for 1997-98 will be
$31,246, increasing annually to
$34,960 in the 2001-02 school year.
Also, beginning in the 1998-99
school year, one additional work day
has been added to the teacher work
year.
School officials said that as part of
the contract extension, substantial
increases in teacher contributions for
hospitalization coverage and plan
deductibles were necessary.
Contributions will increase from
zero to 20 percent of premium costs
for employees, and 10-40 percent for
dependents. Officials said the change
in the hospitalization plan will grow
from an approximate savings of
$75,000 in 1997-98, to a projected
$200,000 in the fifth and final year of
the contract.
From the school board and admi­nistration,
to the Warwick Education
Association (WEA), all sides
appeared satisfied with the contract
extension.
Gary Miles, president of WEA,
said that a lot of personal time was
sacrificed to work out an acceptable
contract.
“We all came out of this feeling
good about it,” Miles said.
Board President Wallace Hof­ferth
said both sides negotiated in
good faith, with,an understanding of
the needs and concerns of one
another.
“We now have labor peace until
the next century,” Hofferth said.
S uperintendent Dr. J ohn Bonfield
said the “overwhelming teacher
approval” of the contract indicated a
sensitivity to the community and to
the financial situation facing the
school district.
David Zerbe, district business
manager, said negotiations went
“remarkably smoothly” and was nev­er
heated or close to a break-down.
“I think it was very cooperative
from both sides,” Zerbe said. “It was
give and take.”
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helped deliver during his
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RICHARD REITZ
JILL IVEY
Steven Courtney to
perform in Lititz
If you and your children
have not yet experienced the
fun of a Steven Courtney
concert, now is your chance.
The popular children’s per­former
will be at First Stage
Tphaqeea ter this weekend. See „ . _ „ -|2 Record Express Staff
Joop and let Parlevliet from
Oude Meer, Holland (near Amster­dam)
are not your everyday tourists.
Sure they have seen the sights . . .
DARE students at Longwood Gardens, the Wax
. . Museum at Dutch Wonderland,
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Fifth grade students at Amish farmland. They also went to
Kissel Hill Elementary School see “Noah” at Sight and Sound,
re ce n tly comp lete d th e ir which let said was beautiful,
requirements for their DARE However, Mon., June 10, two days
drug and alcohol education before leaving, Joop, who speaks
w ith W a rw ic k Township little English, did something not
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the chance to do.
The Parlevliet’s had been staying
with their friends James and Sue
Stauffer, East Woods Drive. That
Locals embark on a day, Joop had been outside taking a
walk, when he saw a cow in the Worthwhile mission Amish neighbor’s field having
Five local teenagers and
adults left the Lititz area this “He saw behind the cow that the
week to participate in a mis- four feet of the calf was out,” said let.
sion project in the Dominican ™ stuck ” added Sue
Republic. For more on the According to Sue, Joop had just
purpose of the mission, see enough time to go in the house and
P '■ ■ put on some of James’s older clo­thing
before going back and deliver­ing
the calf.
“If he would not have been there to
. . , - . help, the calf, I don’t think would
Woodridge bwim have gotten oxygen, and he would
Club celebrates 40th have saM Sue-
, The 40th anniversary of the After delivering the calf, Joop did
Woodridge Swim Club in Lititz not just leave. He made sure the calf
is being celebrated this sum- anc! motber were sa^e an{* sourK^
mer, beginning with Family ™side * e barn- However, the bam
Day at the pool on June 30. was quite a distance from the spot m
S e e P a g e 8 the field where the birth had taken
place.
“He took a wheelbarrow, and he
put the calf in the wheelbarrow and
brought it to the bam,” said let, “And
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Phot-stands
with a calf similar to
16-day vacation in Lititz.
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“It belongs to the life to help some­body,”
added let. “He was happy to
do it for the farmer’s wife. My hus­band
says, ‘Oh, no I help you with
pleasure.”’
Joop has delivered calves before.
When he was younger, his father had
cows, and Joop helped him. Joop has
carried on the farming tradition, but
not with animals. Joop grows
(See Delivers, Page 20)
Record Express Editor
LITITZ — Fourth grade will nev­er
be the same at John Beck Elemen­tary
School.
For 35 years, Esther Markey has
been a fixture at the school — spend­ing
33 of those years in the exact
same room.
But after educating generations of
Warwick youngsters, the teacher
best known for her love of science
and space travel is about to start a
new chapter in her life.
Retirement.
Markey is one of a dozen long­time
Warwick School District
employees retiring from the district.
But of all of those stepping down,
few match the longevity of Markey’s
35 years.
Retirees were recognized and hon­ored
during a special awards and
breakfast program on Thursday, June
13 in the Warwick Middle School
cafeteria.
Among those retirees and the
years they began service were:
•Glenn Badorf, supervisor of the
mathematics department and high
school math teacher, 1962.
•James Diehm, high school social
studies teacher, 1986.
•Janet Frace, kindergarten teach­er
at Kissel Hill Elementary School,
1959.
•Peggy Hess, high school health,
1975.
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During its retirement and recognition awards program on June 13,
Warwick School District thanked staff that retired during or after the
1995-96 school year. Among those recognized were: (front, left to right)
Patricia Williams, Loraine Roberts, Joanna Pierce, (middle, l-r) Marcia
Bronczyk, Esther Markey, (back, l-r) Thomas McCormick, James
Diehm and John Sukenik. Not pictured are Glenn Badorf, Janet Frace,
Peggy Hess and David Remley.
•Thomas McCormick, high
school social studies teacher, 1972.
•Joanna Pierce, high school che­mistry
teacher, 1967.
•David Remley, middle school
social studies teacher, 1963.
•Loraine Roberts, Kissel Hill
teacher, 1966.
•John Sukenik, high school
teacher, 1970.
•Patricia Williams, teacher at
(See Markey, Page 20)
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Photo by J ill Ivey
Ken and Debbie Rhinier stand in theirgarden of the Main Street home.
They will be part of the Master Gardener Open Garden Tour on
Saturday. Area gardeners take
part in county tour
JILL IVEY
Record Express Staff
This Saturday the Lancaster County
Master Gardeners will be presenting
their annual garden tour, and two of
Lititz’s own will take part.
Barb Chisholm, 25 Hilltop Road, ■
became one of the Master Gardeners
last fall after seeing an ad about the
program in the newspaper. She said
that she had to go through an inter­view
before being selected for the
program. She said selection is based
on the persons interest in gardening
and their ability to volunteer.
“They provide you with 30 hours
of instruction, and you give 50 hours
of volunteer time,” said Chisholm.
She said the classed were held
every Wednesday from September
(See Gardens, Page 20)
Record Express Staff
LITITZ — Two local women will
head to Ephrata this weekend for a
chicken recipe showdown.
Gina M. Seace and Dorothy
Gamble were selected as two of the
five finalists in the Pennfield Farms
Pennsylvania Dutch Chicken Recipe
Cook-off, which will be held June
22, from 1 to 4 p.m., during the Lan­caster
County Food, Farm, and Fun
Fest at the Artworks Expo Center at
Doneckers.
Gamble is betting on her Golden
Roast Chicken and Gravy to bring
home the top prize of $500.
When she received the call with
the good news from a Pennfield
home economist last week, Gamble
said that she was suprised because
she had nearly forgotten that she had
entered. On top of that, her heme
computer, where she stores ail her
favorite recipes, crashed and she had
to rely on her first draft for the golden
roast, hoping that she would remem­ber
all the changes she had made over
the years.
Gamble describes her approach to
cooking as improvisational, with fun
and creativity being the main ingre­dients
every time.
“My mother was a very good Pen­nsylvania
Dutch cook and she began
letting me experiment in the kitchen
when I was in elementary school,”
she recalled, adding that it was mom
that instilled the fun of modifying
dishes and using whatever was on
hand.
When Gamble is not cooking she
is a psychologist for Behavioral
Healthcare Consultants in Lancaster
and Lititz. She spends time in the
kitchen every weekend, and said that
her six-year-old son Andy loves her
winning chicken dish.
“It’s one of the few meats he will
eat,” she said, adding that her son
almost converted to vegetarianism
until he found out that bacon wasn’t a
vegetable.
This is her first time in a cooking
contest, and said that if she wins she
plans to buy a new roasting pan.
Seace, who is making Chicken
Macaroni Casserole, is also in her
first cooking contest.
“I was very suprised that they
called,” she said. “I never win
anything.”
A full-time mom with two young
children, Seace said she has been
cooking since she was 10. She
adapted her casserole recipe from a
dish of her husband’s aunt, having to
make some changes so that her kids
would eat it.
At any rate, her children’s taste
must have been palatable for the
judges as the dish made the final cut
If she wins, Seace said that she will
probably go out and celebrate.
“It’s just an honor to be picked as
one of the finalists,” she added.
In addition to the big prize, the sec­ond
place recipe will receive $250,
third earns $150, fourth will take in
$75, and fifth gets $50. Competition
for the Lititz cooks include Carol
Slaymaker, of Kinzers, with Rosem­ary
Chicken and Cream; Mary Petra-ra,
of Lancaster, with Phyllo Chicken
Pot Pie; and Michael Yates, ofForest
Hill, Md„ with BarBQ Chicken.