Lititz Record Express

              THURSDAY, August 29, 1996
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it's back to school time for
students in the Warwick
School District, and ali stud­ents
will be returning to class­es
for a full day on
Wednesday, Sept. 4.
To make sure you catch the
right bus at the right time, be
sure to check out the bus
schedule for all Warwick
schools, featured on Page 7.
New Lititz shop owner
■ has eye for fashion
A new business is coming
to downtown Lititz in Septem­ber.
The Tiger's Eye will fea­ture
a variety of fashionable
accessories and much more.
See Page 18.
Get the latest
Manheim area news
Over the past week,
Manheim Borough Council
and Penn Township
Supervisors met to deliberate
important local issues. Stories
from both meetings, plus
Kathryn Shrelner's Penryn/
Elm News column are fea­tured
on this week's Manheim
page. Page 20.
Boro is business friendly
Planning commission to revisit problem zone
STEPHEN SEEBER
Record E xp re ss Staff
SOUTH BROAD STREET —
Lititz Planning Commission Chair­man
David Bucher talked himself
into half a year’s-worth of volunteer
work during Tuesday’s Borough
Council meeting. Fortunately, he
said he would be glad to do it.
In response to the recent prospect
of losing a downtown business,
council members were all in agree­ment
that the borough’s office and
professional district — Broad Street
from the park to Orange Street —
needs to be reviewed and perhaps
restructured to become more accom- Borough police have
vandalism suspects
STEPHEN SEEBER
Photo by Richard Reitz
ROCK... AND ROLL — Volunteers place rocks and boulders along
the bed of Lititz Run in Warwick Township to help prevent erosion and
improve the habitat for aquatic life.
Developing a park
Local volunteers dedicate
Saturdays to help create
Lititz Run Riparian Park
and Rothsville Road.
Currently it is an area of mani­cured
grass with some picnic tables.
But When die project is finj§hed*tit
will include .20 acres of wetlands,
boulder placements along an
800-foot section of the stream to curb
erosion, plus the creation of natural
dams and the planting of trees and
shrubs in the area.
Plans for the project first emerged
last October, and for the past three
weeks, several volunteers have sac­rificed
their Saturdays to help make
the plans a reality.
The Lititz Record Express visited
some of those dedicated volunteers at
(See Park, Page 28)
RICHARD REITZ
AND STEPHEN SEEBER
Record Exp re ss Staff
WARWICK TOWNSHIP —
Notice the big piles of rocks lining
Lititz Run near the Clay Road-
Rothsville Road intersection?
Don’t worry, they won’t be there
very long.
It is all part of an environmental
project being conducted by the
Donegal Chapter of Trout Unlimited,
the Lititz Sportsman’s Club, and
Warwick Township.
That area is being transformed into
Lititz Run Riparian Park along a 2.4
acre stretch of land between the creek
Record E xp re ss Staff
LITITZ — Following a weekend
in which this summer’s vandalism
epidemic finally took a break, Lititz
Mayor Russell Pettyjohn assured
Borough Council that police are
working hard to end the spree.
Lititz Police Chief Douglas
Shertzer added assurance Tuesday
night by telling Council that police
have suspects linked to last week’s
10-vehicle spray painting party.
During the early morning hours of
Aug. 20, vandals spray painted smi­ley
faces and obscenities on vehicles
along North Water, North Cedar,
South Cedar, Noble, Market and
Front Streets; and Lincoln Avenue.
Until the Aug. 27 Council meet­ing,
no suspects had been named.
Still, police are not prepared to
release the names of any suspects.
It was just two weeks ago that two
boys were caught spray painting
obscenities on a church and inside a
Maple Street apartment building.
On Aug. 15, Lititz police
apprehended two juveniles, 11 and
12, and charged them with criminal
mischief and institutional vandalism.
According to police, the boys
defaced the walls at St. Paul’s Luthe­ran
Church, 200 W. Orange St.; then
painted walls, doors and cabinets at 2
Maple St. Thè incidents occured
April 12 and 13. Estimated damage
was $1,003.
Police said both acts “served no
legitimate purpose.”
Pastor Walter Cleckley said that
St. Paul doesn’t experience much
vandalism. Earlier this year, a section
of the church playground was
damaged and there was a break-in
several years ago.
“We’ve had some little stuff, but
really nothing like this,” said
Cleckley.
According to the pastor, the two
RICHARD REITZ
Warriors prepare to
capture Male Trophy
The Lititz Record continues
its preview of Warwick fall
sports, this time spotlighting Record E xp re ss Editor
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volleyball. home was destroyed and a pet dog
Also fe a tu red is a look was killed in a Tuesday morning
a h e a d to this w e ek en d 's clash blaze that started in the kitchen.
With rival E p h ra ta this Friday Lititz Fire Chief Ron Oettel said
night on th e gridiron at home, the fire at the home of twin brothers
A look at what to ex p e c t in th e Kirk and Dirk Walkowicz, 216
g am e, plus som e sports anal- Swarthmore Drive, started at about
ysis by Bruce Morgan in his 11:30 p.m., nearly 'A -hour before
column "Sports Express" can fire crews were alerted of the blaze,
be found on th e sp o rts p ag e s. Oettel said Dirk had been cooking
eggplant on the stove at about 5 p.m.
Monday evening when a car accident
three blocks away knocked over a
utility pole and caused a power out-
Sam Hess to head a^ in ^ u Power had not been restored by
L u n g A S S O C , board 9:30 p.m., when Dirk decided to
Sam H e ss of Lititz w a s leave and visit a friend in Manheim,
recently e le c ted to se rv e a s Oettel said. When he left, the stove
p re sident of th e American had not been turned off.
Lung Association of L an c a ste r When power was finally restored
and Berks Counties Board Of in the area at around 10:15 p.m., the
Tru stee s. P a g e 28. electric stove fired up, Oettel said.
Eventually the oil in the pan caught
fire, gradually spreading through the
bi-level home.
Lititz Police Sgt. Kerry Nye was
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Car crash, power outage
trigger Lititz house blaze
Food left on stove causes $120,000 damage
Photo courtesy of Melissa Busse
Firefighters work to contain the blaze that destroyed a home along
Swarthmore Drive in Lititz early Tuesday morning.
house when the fire started, was
killed.
Oettel said it took firefighters one
hour and 15 minutes to bring, the
blaze under control. The fire was
contained by firefighters and did not
spread to other nearby residences.
Damage is estimated at $90,000
for the structure, and $30,000 for the
contents.
The car accident occured at 5 p.m.
on Aug. 26 when Stacey L. Ganga-way,
30, of Akron, drove a 1967
Chevrolet Malibu off of the road
between Owl Hill and Penwick
roads.
Warwick Township police said
Gangaway’s car traveled over a
guide wire and struck the utility pole,
as well as a mailbox at 156 Owl Hill
Road.
Gangaway was transported to
Ephrata Community Hospital by
Warwick Ambulance, where she was
treated for injuries and released on
Tuesday, according to a hospital offi­cial.
The vehicle was towed from the
scene.
boys were in the church prior to the
incident and were asked to leave by
the janitor. Cleckley said that the
obscenities that were spray painted
on the walls were directed toward the
janitor, ultimately helping to lead
police to the boys.
Cleckley said that it’s tough to
speculate on why someone would
deface a church. “Kids need more
productive things to do. They seem to
get bored during this time of year,”
he said.
The boys were caught with the
help of witnesses at both locations.
Tuesday morning police stated that
the two boys are not current suspects
in the last week’s vehicle damage.
“I know they (police) are very
determined to get to the bottom of
this,” said Council President Dennis
Stuckey.
modating toward interested business
owners like Marsha Baron.
Last week, Baron’s request to
open a bakery at 45 S. Broad St. was
continued until September by the
Lititz Zoning Hearing Board. The
wait may cost her the opportunity to
sell unique European breads in Lititz
since there is no guarantee that the
property owner will take the loss of
keeping the building empty for
another 30 days.
The current law, which does not
allow for retail business in that area,
has managed to frustrate borough
officials and there is no immediate
answer to the problem.
“It’s a shame that what everyone
thinks is right is wrong,” said
Bucher.
So who will come to the rescue?
Bucher and his planning commis­sion
will study the ordinance and will
hopefully present a creative
business-friendly solution to Council
sometime next spring.
According to Bucher, the original
thought behind such zoning was to
prevent commercial sprawl down
Broad Street with a buffer zone. In
this case, the stopper was the office
and professional area.
The current problem is that this
buffer has over-extended its useful­ness
in that the first block of South
Broad Street is what Bucher calls “de
(See Business, Page 28) Council talks trash
Garbage disposal, post office
expansion discussed in Lititz
STEPHEN SEEBER
Record E xp re ss Staff
COUNCIL CHAMBERS —
Lititz has the best garbage men in thè
world.
That is the Sentiment of at least one
borough resident who -talked trash
with council members this week; and
Council was in agreement... at least
enough to renew its contract with
Lebanon Farms Disposal for one
more year of garbage pickup
throughout town.
The current contract ends this
year, and according to Borough Bus­iness
Manager Sue Barry, Lititz has
the lowest disposal rate in the county
at $39 per unit.
(See Trash, Page 28) Antiques Show returns
for 30th year in Park
LITITZ SPRINGS PARK —
Always a favorite among its particip­ants,
the Lititz Springs Park Antiques
and Collectibles Show and Sale
returns for the 30th time this
weekend.
There will be HO vendors selling
their interesting and unusual wares
on Saturday, Aug. 31, from 9 a.m.-5
p.m. at booths winding throughout
the park.
The popular show, which has been
rated as the best by many of those
who participate, attracts vendors
from across the state, as well as anti­que
enthusiasts from Virginia, Mary­land,
Delaware and New Jersey.
Tom Sexton, president of the
Lititz Springs Park Board and an
organizer of the event, anticipates
that this will be another successful
event. Once again, every possible
vendor site has been filled.
“We’ve had people there ever
since that very first show,” Sexton
said. Many of them enjoy coming
back to Lititz each year to meet with
old friends.
The Antiques and Collectibles
Lititz S p r in g s P a rk
A n tiq u e s a n d C o lla c tib ie s
S h ow a n d S a le
show has proved to be so successful
that earlier this year, the Park Board
introduced a companion antique
show in the spring. Though slightly
smaller than its senior, the spring
show was nevertheless a pleasant
success for the park.
And a successful antiques show
means good things for the park. This
is one of the Lititz Springs Park
Board’s fundraisers, which raises
money to provide for the mainte­nance
and upkeep for the park.
Weather forcasts indicate it should
be a mild and pleasant day in Lititz,
perfect for the sale. Admission and
parking is free, and there will be food
available as well as musical enter­tainment,
reportedly by the
Moonlighters.
“Come out early and enjoy it!”
Sexton said.
Achey still critical
after car explosion
Car wash to aid burn victim
RICHARD REITZ
Record Expre ss Editor
Ronald C. Achey, the Warwick
Township man burned in an accident
at his Lititz Pike garage last week,
remains in critical condition in the
bum unit at the Crozer Chester Trau­ma
Center.
Achey, 59, of the 200 block of
Zartman Mill Road, suffered second
and third degree bums to his arms,
hands, chest, neck, back and face on
Aug. 14 when a carburator exploded
in a car he was working on at
Achey’s Garage, 927 Lititz Pike.
Initially transported to Lancaster
General Hospital for treatment, he
was flown by helicopter to Crozer the
following day when the swelling in
his throat worsened, according to his
nephew, Craig Achey.
Achey said Ronald’s spirits have
improved, but added that he may
have to remain at Crozer for about
two weeks for skin grafts.
To offset some of the medical
expenses, a benefit car wash and
bake sale has been planned at the gar­age.
The event will be held on Satur­day,
Sept. 7 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Craig
said.
A trust fund has also been estab­lished
at Fulton Bank, and Achey
said any donations can be sent to any
branch of the bank, or directly to
Ronald Achey, 245 Zartman Mill
Road, Lititz 17543. Checks can be
made out to the Ronald C. Achey
Benefit Fund.