Lititz Record Express

              THURSDAY, February 20, 1997
L i t i t z R e c o r d E x p r e s s
120TH YEAR 24 Pages- No. 45 LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA Two sections 30 cents
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Martyr's tale coming
to local stage
A Brunnerville man will play
the lead role in the story of a
local martyr who died at the
hands of South American
guerrillas in 1981 while doing
missionary work. Page 14.
Fifth graders at Beck
graduate D.A.R.E.
Students in the three fifth
grade classes at John Beck
Elementary School received
their Drug and Alcohol
Resistance Education diplo­mas
on Tuesday for success­fully
completing this important
program. For the full story and
photos of the graduates, see
Page 6.
George Lewis
retires as ag lender
Lititz Improvement Presi
dent Geo rg e Lewis has
stepped down as the agi ¡cul­tural
lender at Farmers First
Bank, after 24 years of service
to the farming community.
Lewis has been succeeded by
Andrew C. Terrell of Neffsvilie.
Page 16.
Can homeschoolers
join MC events?
At .the Tuesday meeting of
the Manheim Central School
Board, a homeschooling par­ent
asked for the reversal of a
policy that prevents children
who are taught at home from
participating in extra-curricular
activities at Manheim Central.
Wilson falls,
Harrisburg is next
The boys basketball team
advanced to the final eight in
the District Three Quad-A
playoffs by beating Wilson 51-
47 in a thriller at Lebanon
High School on Tuesday. Now
they are preparing to face
Harrisburg, the team that
knocked them out of the
District playoffs last year. See
Page 8.
Monday, Feb. 24, 7 p.m. —
Warwick Twp. Recreation
Advisory Committee, 315
Clay Road.
Monday, Feb. 24, 7 p.m. —
Penn Twp. Supervisors, 97 N.
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Bar wars Local businesses, officials react to a Manheim
woman’s crusade for alcohol-free communities
JILL IVEY U -
Record Express Staff
MANHEIM — Efforts to make
Penn and Rapho townships and Man­heim
Borough dry municipalities has
raised concern among area busines­ses
that operate with a liquor license.
Seven businesses in Manheim and
. three in Penn township currently
serve alcoholic beverages. Several of
those businesses, along with those in
Rapho Township, met Tuesday night
to discuss the situation.
According to Dave Groff Jr.,
manager at Papa Dino’s in Penn
Township, they are not sure exactly
what will happen if they are prohi­bited
from selling alcohol. He said
that they have a good food business,
I see th is a s a n o p p o r ­tu
n ity to b e t te r th e c om ­m
u n ity .
Dianne Berlin
Liquor license opponent
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but added that the beer and liquor
sales are a nice boost.
Papa Dino’s opened in November
1995. Groff said that their current liq­uor
license expires early next year
and is only good in the township.
From Groff’s perspective, Papa
Dino’s likely would not have opened
there they had known the township
might become dry.
“We never would have bought this
place if we had known,” said Groff.
Manheim resident Dianne Berlin,
who is heading the effort to eliminate
liquor licenses in this area, said right
now they are in the process of col­lecting
the necessary signatures to
have eight questions concerning the
sale of alcoholic beverages on the-primary
ballot in May.
“This is exercising one of our
rights that we have been given,” she
said. “We are allowing citizens to
look at the whole picture of alcoholic
beverage licensing.”
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. Dave Groff Jr.
manager, Papa Dino’s
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According to Berlin, they need
signatures of at least 25 percent of the
highest number of votes cast in any
one office of the last election. Berlin
said that she needs approximately
440 signatures in Manheim and
around 580 in Penn Township.
The questions which Berlin would
like to see on the ballot involve the
granting of liquor licenses for the
sale of liquor in restaurants as well as
privately-owned golf courses and
veterans’ organizations.
The questions also involve the
granting of malt and brewed bever­age
retail dispenser licenses for corn-sumption
on the premises where they
are sold.
Pennsylvania liquor stores will
also be affected by the vote. One of
(See Liquor, Page 18)
This is the design architect R. Dexter Frey Jr. designed for the Lititz
Springs Park train station project in 1995.
Architect’s arrest
should not impact
Lititz Train Station
RICHARD REITZ
Record Express Editor
LITITZ — The recent arrest of
the architect that designed premlim-ary
plans for the Lititz Springs Park
train station should not have a signif­icant
impact on the project.
R. Dexter Frey, 51, of Lancaster,
was arrested in Maryland recently for
allegedly selling stolen Civil War
memorabilia. Frey, a former member
of the architectural firm Bradley,
Chambers and Frey, designed the
replica train station in 1995, which is
to be the cornerstone of the Lititz
Springs Capital Improvement
Project.
“I’m disappointed, because Dex­ter
Frey was so enthusiastic for the
project,” said project chairman
James Wynkoop. “That was one of
the reasons we chose him.”
But Wynkoop said Frey’s situa­tion
should not have an adverse
impact on the project. He said then-contract
for the project is through the
architectural firm, now Bradley,
Chambers and Associates.
He said since the preliminary
drawings were completed, additional
plans have not been developed
through the architect. The organiza-
' tion was not planning to proceed
until fundraising was completed.
Wynkoop added that their private
fundraising efforts have been going
well, and that additional public fun­draisers
will be planned in the future.
The capital improvement project
has a goal of $650,000, which wiU be
used for several projects in Lititz
Springs Park. The most significant is
the Broad Street train station,
designed to look like the station that
stood across the railroad tracks from
the Wilbur Chocolate factory from
the 1880s until it was razed in 1957.
The red brick facility, when com­pleted,
would be used as an informa­tion
center, meeting hall, office for
the park board, historic display area,
and public rest rooms.
A target date for completion has
not been set, pending completion of
the fundraising efforts.
.. T c/T / v Photo by Stephen Seeber
From left, David Brubaker and Mayor Russell-Pettyjohn, shown here-at the new riparian park at Clay
Road, are part of an effort to build a better Lititz by cleaning up the ChesapeakeBay. Their localized efforts
could impact the local economy in the near future. . (
Lititz Run could become model
for environmental preservation
STEPHEN SEEBER
Record Express Staff
LITITZ — Historic preservation
has always been a draw for tourism
and development in the borough.
Add environmental maintenance to
the equation and the possibilities
could be endless.
Organizers behind improvements
to the Lititz Run watershed can only
speculate on how enhanced water
quality can effect the local economy,
but those who are investing the time
and money on projects like the War­wick
Township riparian park are
envisioning a bright future for this
area.
“It’s hard to relate the total value
that Lititz Run has to the economy,
but it’s something we want to do,”
said Greg Wilson of Trout
Unlimited.
Be did say that a healthy
watershed could generate tourism,
stimulate local retailers that support
tourism, and improve the quality of
area farm yields.
, Wilson is leading the localized
effort to revitalize the creek, plagued
by erosion and high nitrate levels
from runoff, and hopes to add the
help of former Lancaster Chamber of
Commerce President Roger Moyer
to get a better idea of the prospective
impacts. •
Others joining the effort include
Warwick Township manager Dan
Zimmerman, Logan Meyers of the
Millport Conservancy, Lititz Bor­ough
Manager Sue Barry, Lancaster
County Planning Commission mem­ber
John Hohman, Jim Salzman of
the Lancaster County Conservation
(See Lititz Run, Page 18)
Sheetz to open in
Warwick April 3
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Photo by Bruce Morgan
NARKIEWICZ, WARRIORS FLEX MUSCLES — Warwick’s Eric Narkiewicz takes control in his
match against Northern’s Kinsey in the finals of the District Team Tournament last Saturday. Narkiew­icz
went on to earn a 12-4 major decision and helped the Warriors nearly beat a tough Northern team.
Unfortunately for Warwick, the Polar Bears were able to hold on for the victory. For the complete story,
turn to page 8.
WARWICK TWP. — The new
Sheet2 convenience store at the
intersection or Route 501 and New­port
Road will be opening on April 3,
the company announced this week.
Officials from the company said a
grand opening celebration will be
held at that time.
“The first thing people will notice
is our big, bright red canopy that we
think serves as a beacon for every­thing
else under it,” said Joe Sheetz
of the family owned operation.
Sheetz, based in Altoona, was
given approval by Warwick Town­ship
supervisors last summer for the
convenience store, and Sheetz con­tributed
to the improvement project
at the hazardous Route 501-Newport
Road intersection, which was com­pleted
early this year.
Sheetz, founded in 1952 by Bob
Sheetz, has over 180 stores in Pen­nsylvania,
Virginia, Maryland and
West Virginia, and plans to open 30
new stores this year.
The store offers fast food service,
grocery items and gasoline service.
T e e n s a w a i t s e n t e n c i n g
o n s e r i e s o f b u r g l a r i e s
LITITZ — Following a hunch
and information from a parent, bor­ough
police were able to pin a pair of
local teens to a series of business
break-ins and retail thefts.
Investigating officer Sgt. William
Seace called it “kids’ stuff’ and said
there was no specific motivation
behind the crimes that sent thé 14 and
15-year-old boys to juvenile court on
Feb. 11.
According to police, the teens
illegally entered Gem Chem Corp. at
53 N. Cedar St. between Jan. 25 and
26, stealing a cellular phone and set
of keys valued at $75.
They also confessed to a burglary
at Trump/Lange Excavating Co., 325
North Lane, in which $200 worth of
tools were stolen between Jan. 26 and
Feb. 3. Between Jan. 31 and Feb. 3
they allegedly broke into the Lititz
Planing Mill at 302 Front St.
Police also associated two Jan. 31
retail thefts, one that involved $75 in
stolen items from McElroy’s Phar­macy
at 100 E. Main St., and the sec­ond
at the Pewter Mug on East Main
Street, where $10 in merchandise
was reported missing.
Seace said that all stolen items
have been recovered and the two
children await sentencing, which
could include probation, fines, and
community service.