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              THURSDAY, March 6, 1997
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The annual Lititz Record
Express Easter Coloring
Contest returns this week,
and is featured on page 17.
Shopping dollar prizes in
three age groups vvih be
awarded over ihe next four
weeks.
Will it be a friendly
rivalry?
What will the arrival of
Sheetz Convenience Store at
Newport-Route 501 mean for
its neighbor and competitor,
Shipley’s Exxon? Page 19.
Warm up your winter
with Boys of Summer
There may be snow on the
ground, but the forecast is for
a warm and sunny evening as
First Stage Cabaret opens its
“Boys of Summer” showcase
of popular summertime hits.
Page 12.
WHS students will be
giving blood
This Friday, many students
at Warwick will be giving of
themselves through "a blood
drive. Warwick senior Amy
Leeking offers a Student’s
Perspective^ Pgge 6. . • . . . . . .
Garden Expo returns
The SKH Spring Garden
Expo will be held this wee­kend
at the Lititz Pike store,
offering tips for all of your gar­dening
questions. Page 21,
MC Middle School
Principal leaving
After 17 years, longtime
Manheim Central Middle
School Principal L. John
Stitzel is retiring. For a look at
his career, see Page 16.
See you at the Expo!
This Friday and Saturday,
the Lititz Community Center
will host the second annual
Northern Lancaster County
Business Expo, hosted by the
Lititz Rotary Club. The Lititz
Record Express will be
among the many businesses
that will nartirinate
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Matt Maazali won a goid
and sliver to lead the 'Warwick
swimmers at ihe District
championships Several team
records were broken, and
three individuals and a relay
team wii! advance to Stales
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Church..............................23-24
Classified......................... 25-27
Editorial / Letters....................4
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Obituaries.......... ................. 2, 24
Out of the Past..................... .28
Police Log............................. ...15
School News............... ..........6-7
Social............................... ..21-22
Sports............................ ....... 8-11
Delgado seen at victim’s
home on day of murder
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RICHARD REITZ
Record Express Editor
WARWICK TWP. — Witnesses
have placed him at the house on the
day Patricia Anonia was stabbed to
death.
Food was discovered on the kitch­en
table of Anonia’s Rabbit Hill
Road home that she did not typically
cook for herself.
On the week before her death,
Anonia’s former boyfriend called her
office at least 10 times a day. On the
Monday after— and before her body
was discovered—he did not call the
office at all.
He allegedly cashed a forged
check using her bank account and
attempted unsuccessfully to access
her account with her MAC card.
This was some of the testimony
heard during the two-day prelimin­ary
hearing for Jesus Delgado, 45,
Anonia’s ex-boyfriend. The man
many of her neighbors knew only as
“Ace” has been charged with homi­cide
for the Jan. 25 murder of the
Warwick Township woman.
And while the case is being built
Photo by Stephen Seeber
Warwick Township police officers escort murder suspect Jesus
Delgado from District Justice James Garrett’s office following day one
of his preliminary hearing.
S e a r c h n a r r o w s f o r
1 9 9 7 L A T S p r o j e c t
Lititz has until April 4 to take
advantage of[. county funding
was enough to convince District Jus­tice
Janies Garrett to order Delgado
to stand trial for the crime.
Testimony began on Friday with
Barbara Hopkins, the neighbor
who first went into her house when
she thought something was wrong.
Hopkins testified that she thought
it was unusual Anonia’s home
remained dark throughout Saturday
and Sunday. She tried to call once on
Sunday and got no answer, and was
not able to reach her at Lancaster
Housing Opportunity Partnership,
Inc., where she was employed.
Two neighbors, Michael Ross and
Jack Nuss, came with Hopkins into
the house to see what was wrong.
After inspecting the rooms in the
house for several minutes, Ross and
Nuss went down into the basement,
where they discovered Anonia’s
body.
Warwick Police Officer Michael
Burdge, the first on the scene, said
while inspecting the house they
noticed the door was off of the stereo
cabinet in the “piano room” with no
stereo inside. A knife blade was also
found on the floor between the televi-ie
kitchen.
Waldemar Rosas of Lancaster, a
friend of Delgado’s, testified on
Monday that he purchased a stereo
from Delgado on Jan. 26 for $50,
which family members later identi­fied
as Anonia’s. Rosas said Delgado
told him he and his “wrie” were sell­ing
the system because they were
planning on moving ro Florida.
Rosas also testified that Delgado
had sold him a white Toyota, which
belonged to Anonia, on the week
before her death. And on the Sunday
he purchased the stereo, Rosas testi­fied
that he had first driven Delgado
to 920 Rabbit Hill Road and dropped
him off at the house.
After learning that Anonia was
murdered, Rosas said he turned over
the car and stereo to police.
Rosas said when Delgado
appeared at his door on Sunday
morning, “he looked like he had a
rough night — his hair wasn’t com­bed,
eyes were black, like he had
been up all night.”
The Food
Much of the testimony centered on
the food discovered on plates in the
kitchen.
(See Delgado, Page .18)
STEPHEN SEEBEFI
Record Express Staff
LITITZ—Four road projects are
being considered for this year’s Lan­caster
Area Transportation Study
grant, a 50-50 funding match from
the county.
Borough Council expects to
approve one of the plans by March
25. If not, Lititz is left with 10 days to
put something together before the
county rescinds its offer to foot half
the bill.
Improvements to Second Avenue
at South Broad Street, 1996’s loca­tion
for the highest frequency of acci­dents,
is high on the list.
“That particular intersection
generated quite a bit of interest from
the public,” said Council President
Dennis Stuckey.
Since Lititz Police Chief Douglas
Sfaertzer released his annual crime
report in January, the borough has
received at least two letters from resi­dents
requesting safety improve­ments
at the intersection. One of the
letters, according to Stuckey,
referenced the early morning acci­dent
that sent a middle school student
to the hospital in serious condition
just before Christmas.
, Of all the projects mentioned,.
Sheifzer said he favors an advanced
signal at Second Avenue.
‘That would be a good one if
they’ll go with it,” he said. “If you’ve
ever been there at four or five in the
evening forget it, you’ll sit and wait.
He added that problems at Second
Avenue spill over onto side streets.
“A lot of people try to avoid it and
Third Avenue and Sixth Street end
up congested,” he said.
Other projects include advanced
left signals at Lincoln Avenue and
North Broad Street, Oak and East
Main Street, and northbound flash­ing
lights before the Sixth and Broad
Street intersection.
Borough Engineer Darrell Beck­er
said that each potential project
must meet a number of PennDOT
requirements. He expects to have the
details, along with cost estimates,
ready for this month’s council meet­ing,
about 114 weeks before the April
4 - deadline.
Stuckey stressed that all four are in
a preliminary stage until Becker pre­sents
plans.
If council does not approve any of
the projects under consideration,
Becker said there would still be some
(See LATS, Page 18)
Photo by J ill Ivey
Jack, played by Steve Nikoloff, and his mother, portrayed by Emily Good, take shelter from a witchy Erin
McCoy as they head “Into the Woods” next weekend at Warwick High School.
WHS plans trip ‘Into the Woods’
JILL IVEY
Record Express Staff
WARWICK HIGH SCHOOL
Where can you go to see Cinderel­la,
Red Riding Hood, the Prince, and
the Big Bad Wolf all in the same
location?
Warwick High School, believe it
District Champs
Photo by Preston Whitcraft
Warwick’s wrestling team came home with the team title from the District 3 Triple-A Championships,
which were held at Shippensburg University last weekend. Shown here displaying the team trophy are
(front row) Cory Hess, Eric Narkiewicz, Joel Darras, Brian Shober, and Mike Thorn; (back row) Head
Coach Jerry McDonald, Tristan Loper, Brent Narkiewicz, Jason Aurand, Jeff Bowlby, Bart Rose, Ryan
Cummins, Dwaine Horst, Pat Cummins, and Joel Joyce. See more in sports, page 8.
or not.
Next weekend Warwick High
School will present Stephen Sond­heim’s
Tony Award-winning musi­cal
“Into the Woods.”
According to Warwick director
Dennis Foreman, the show has a
certain appeal to children because of
the fairytale characters, but also
appeals to adults.
“The fact that it is a cautionary tale
with a moral, like all good fairytales
are” holds that appeal, said Foreman,
who is directing at Warwick for the
second year.
He said from a director’s stand­point
he has always wanted to do
direct a Sondheim piece. Foreman
said that he along with Deb Kline-
Smith, the vocal director, and Dale
Weller, the conductor, decided on
the show this past fall.
“I felt very stongly that we have
the musicians to pull it off, and that
was key,” said Foreman. “If you
don’t have the musicians, don’t do
Sondheim.”
According to Foreman, Act One
brings together the Brothers Grimm
fairytale characters of Cinderella,
Jack the Giant Killer, and Red Riding
Hood and added the Baker and his
wife, who are childless because of a
curse place on them by the neighbor­hood
witch.
Foreman said that the curse was
placed on the Baker and his wife
because the Baker’s father stole mag­ic
beans from the witch’s garden. The
only way to break they can break the
curse is to come up with a locket of
hair the color of com, slippers as pure
as gold, a cape as red as blood, and a
cow as white as snow in three days
time. Foreman said that each charac­ter
eventually ends up in the woods.
“Act One deals with all the ele­ments
of the stories coming together
and of course, everything’s resolved
with everyone living happily ever
after,” said Foreman. “Act Two com­es
back, and we discover that all is
not well in the land.”
(See “Woods”, Page 18)
L iq u o r o p p o n en ts m ak e
sta tem en t a t c o u r th o u se
JILL IVEY
Record Express Staff
LANCASTER — Modem day
prohibitionists took their cause to the
steps of the Lancaster County Court­house
last Thursday afternoon.
In a joint statement from four
municipalities the group, which is
petitioning to ban the sale of alcohol
in Penn, Rapho, and East Lampeter
Townships, and Manheim Borough,
said that “as concemced citizens of
our respective communities, we have
all become increasingly aware of the
negative impact of alcohol use on our
community and society in general.”
They said that their common goal
is a desire to give the voters in each
community an opportunity to reduce
that negative impact by making alco­hol
less readily available through
local referendum.
In order to put the eight questions
on the primary election ballot in
May, the group needs signatures
from at least 25-percent of the voting
population in ' each of the
communities.
(See Alcohol, Page 18)