Lititz Record Express

              THURSDAY, May 22, 1997
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□ Memorial Day
Remember our
fallen heroes
Monday, May 26 is the
observance of Memorial Day,
and the staff at the Lititz
Record Express encourages
everyone to take part in their
community Memorial Day
events and remember those
who have died to preserve
and protect our freedoms.
RICHARD REITZ
Record Express Editor
LITITZ — Assessment appeals
and a reduction of revenue through
“Clean and Green” are being cited as
key reasons for a Warwick School
District tax hike for the 1997-98
school year.
The Warwick School Board on
Tuesday granted preliminary
approval to its proposed $30.8 mil­lion
budget for the coming school
year.
And although it only represents an
increase of 2.35 percent over the cur­rent
budget, Superintendent Dr.
John Bonfield said a tax increase
equivalent to 4.4 mills based upon
the old millage system — and 0.7
mills under the new one — was
needed to balance the books.
Under the new millage system, in
place now as part of the county-wide
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New development
works with nature
Nancy Guyton grew up
enjoying the wooded marsh­land
behind her Warwic.: Iwp.
home, and when planning the
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development, took great c a rl
to make sure others could
enjoy it as well. Page 14.
Warwick honors its
academic scholars
At a special ceremony on
Monday, the Warwick School
District recognized its out­standing
Warwick Scholars
from sixth grade, eighth
grade, 11th grade and 12th
grade. Page 6.
The Fourth is coming
The i rinidad and Tobago
Steel Drum Band from
Baltimore will be the featured
band in the annual Lititz Lions
Fourth of July Parade on July
3. For this story and more
Fourth of July previews, see
Page 28.
Antique autos and
treasure abound
Lititz was an active place
on Sunday, beginning with the
arrival of pre-1942 automo­biles
for the second annual
downtown car show. Families
and friends then gathered at
the Lititz Museum for a fun-filled
evening at the annual
Treasure Hunt. Page 16.
Softball team
advances in playoffs
Behind an impressive per­formance
by Mary Dutcher,
the Warriors defeated
Hershey 6-1 in its District
Playoff opener on Tuesday.
Page 9.
Business................ ....14-15
Church........... ..................12-13
Classified.........................25-27
Editorial / Letters..................... 4
Entertainment....................... 22
Manheim News............. .......23
Obituaries / Births............2, 24
Out of the Past......................17
Police Log.............. 18
School News......... ..............6-7
Social...............................20-21
Sports.......................... ..8-11
Lititz, Rothsville to
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LITITZ — Stanley W. Rein-hard,
Jr., Department Adjutant Of
The American Legion, Department
Of Pennsylvania, will be the speaker
at the Memorial Day services both at
Rothsville and Lititz on Monday,
May 26.
He has been a member of the
American Legion for 39 years. He
served in the U.S. Army with the
101st Airborne Division and with
the 28th Division in Ulm, Germany.
Reinhard served as 14th District
Commander of the American legion
1979-80, and as Eastern Vice Com­mander
1981-82. He was elected
Department Commander of the
Department of Pennsyvania for
his term, he was
■ to activities of the
: '. tember 1991,
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Sandy (she preferred not to give her last name) said that she always
cleans up after her dogs, Hunter and Nikki, but she knows that some
pet owners just keep on walking.
D o g law ’s b a r k m a y
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STEPHEN SEEBER
Record Express Staff
LITITZ — Dog droppings and
stray cats could soon become a pet
peeve for the borough if animal own­ers
don’t take more responsiblity.
Last month, council member Ruth
Fry McKennon relayed complaints
from residents that dog walkers are
failing scoop up the messes left
behind by these ‘best Mends.’ ■
Police Chief Douglas Sherizer
identified East Sixth Street and the
grass strips along Route 501 as
Lititz’s major problem areas.
“Some people think they can take
their dog out there to do its business,
but they’re required to pick it up,”
said Shertzer. “If we catch them
they’ll be cited.”
Lititz does have a dog ordinance,
and, if violated, pet owners could
scoop up fines ranging from $25 to
$300.
reassessment that went into effect at
the beginning of the year, the new
rate will be set at 13.1 mills.
The new system follows a 100 per­cent
assessment rate. A property
assessed at $80,000 will be taxed at
$1,048, or at an increase of about
$56.
Bonfield said that the primary
increases in the new budget included
$537,846 in salaries, $179,417 in
new staff needs due to increased
enrollment, $108,794 in special edu­cation
services, and $16,214 in
transportation.
Bonfield called this budget “a
pretty modest increase,” considering
the present budget was at an increase
of nearly 5 percent over the 1995-96
operation budget
“A lot of it was lost revenue due to
assessment appeals by local business
and industry,” Bonfield said. That
has resulted in a $490,348 loss this
year, and $3.3 million lost over the
past 15 years.
Another loss in revenue is
$385,000 due to the Clean and Green
Program, which provides a tax break
for farmland that is kept for agricul­ture
use. He said .33 mills of the
increase will cover that loss.
“That tax burden has to be spread
out across other district taxpayers,”
Bonfield said.
(See Taxes, Page 7)
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Mike Brubaker and Hobun Ikeya, president of Ecosystems Conservation Society of Japan, toured the
Warwick Township riparian park May 16. A group of Japanese researchers hope to implement this technolo­gy
in their country.
R ip p le E ffect
How improvements to a local
tream might benefit Japan P
STEPHEN SEEBER
Record Express Staff
WARWICK TOWNSHIP —
Lititz Run may only cover a short
stretch of land, but the environmental
advantages of its trout-filled waters
could touch shore thousands of miles
away.
Brubaker Agronomic Consulting
Services recently hosted a group of
Japanese researchers in a study of the
Lititz Run watershed, offering a
nation of limited natural resources
and space a chance to see advanced
enviro-technology at work.
“This is very interesting,” said
Ken Yoshiya, interpreter for the
Ecosystem Conservation Society of
Japan, as he and seven other conser-
But the ordinance is difficult to
enforce. In fact, during the 17 years
that District Justice James Garrett
has served Warwick Township and
Lititz, he hasn’t issued a single dog
ordinance fine.
“I do not remember ever having
one,” said Garrett. “You’ve got to
catch someone doing it and that’s the
hard part”
Does this make such an ordinance
obsolete?
“I don’t know if I’d go that far,”
said Garrett, “it’s just one of those
things where someone has to see it
and I don’t think that’s a high priority
with the police.”
Borough Council President Den­nis
Stuckey agreed, saying that the
last thing he wants to see is local
police being bogged down with dog­gie
surveillance. And despite Lititz’s
two decades without a recorded cita-
(See Pet Peeve, Page 14)
vationists toured Warwick Town­ship’s
new riparian park. “Some of
this technology is being imple­mented
in Japan, but not very much.
Our trip to Lititz should be
advantageous.”
Ecosystem serves as a liaison
between Japan’s government and
private sector, actively advocating
law and policy that promotes preser­vation,
conservation management,
and environmental education.
Japan’s agricultural ministry will
see some changes as a new cabinet
head will take over in two years.
These researchers intend to incorpo­rate
the Lititz Run watershed philo­sophy
into the agenda of new
leadership.
A country about the size of Cali­fornia,
with half the population of the
United States, Japan is faced with the
daunting task of space budgeting.
Mike Brubaker, president of
Brubaker Agronomics, said that they
will achieve this through public-government
teamwork, the same
method that has made Lititz Run
efforts so successful.
“They were extremely impressed
with the cooperation that they saw
between local municipalities, state
and federal government agencies,
and volunteers in the private sector,”
said Brubaker. “This is exactly what
they would like to emulate in Japan.”
Last spring, members of Lititz
Borough Council, Warwick Town­ship
Supervisors, Warwick School
(See Stream, Page 16) The search is over
Warwick zoners OK site for new library
RICHARD REITZ
Record Express Editor
WARWICK TWP. — The Lititz
Public Library has cleared a major
hurdle in its quest for a new home.
On May 14, the Warwick Town­ship
Zoning Hearing Board decided
that a 15,000 square foot library
would be a permitted use in an area
zoned for residential use.
This means that after years of
searching for the perfect site, it now
appears that library officials have
found it on a three-acre section of the
farm owned by Elizabeth Siegrist
along Kissel Hill Road, near the
Sixth Street intersection.
“This is where the library will be,”
said Library ' Board President
Maryann Richmond. “This is the
site, and I think it is a great site.”
Library officials needed the spe­cial
exception, since the township
did not have a specific designation
for a library as an acceptable use in
that particular zone. At an April 9
hearing, they explained to the zoners
why it was an appropriate use.
■ “We are pleased that the Warwick
Township zoning governing body
was able to see this as a good use of
the land,” Richmond said.
Approval was granted with a few
conditions, including meeting all sig-
William N. Young, former Record E .
nage requirements, providing sidew­alk
access to the property along Kis­sel
Hill Road, maintaining down­ward
projection lighting, and
limiting operation hours and exterior
activities.
All of these conditions are fine by
the Library Board.
“Those few conditions are ones we
can live with,” Richmond said.
“They were well within what we
would have done anyway.”
She said they would be restricted
to operating between 9 a.m.-9 p.m.
Monday through Saturday, with
allowance for six activities on Sun-
(See Library, Page 16)
dies at 94
LITITZ — Former owner,
publisher and editor of the Lititz
Record Express from 1938 to 1962,
William Neiles Young, died May
20, 1997, at Moravian Manor. He
was 94.
Bom Sept. 19, 1902, he was the
son of the late Dr. George J. and
Frances Neiles Young.
His wife, Katherine “Kit” Ober
Young, died in 1978.
He graduated from Coatesville
High School and attended Temple
University, where he wrote feature
stories for the Philadelphia Inquirer
as a night job for about two years.
He then transferred to the Colum­bia
School of Journalism in 1923,
leading to staff writing positions with
the New York Telegram, New Bed­ford
Standard, and Lancaster’s Intel­ligencer
Journal.
While in Lancaster, he and his
wife decided they wanted to buy their
own newspaper.
He first bought the Kennett Square
News and Advertiser in 1932, before
purchasing publications in Downing-town
and Parksburg.
They bought the Lititz Record
Express on Oct. 20,1938, and moved
to 111 West End Ave. Young lived
there until he moved to Moravian
Manor last year.
In January of 1962, Young sold the
Lititz paper to Robert G. Campbell,
who is the current general manager.
After leaving the Record Express,
Young devoted his time to art, paint­ing
with pastels, watercolors and
acrylics.
“I had two interests in life, paint­ing
and printing,” said Young in a
1995 interview with the Record
Express.
Young attended Lititz Moravian
Church.
He was a member of the Rotary
Club of Lititz, and served as its presi­dent
for two years. He was an origi­nal
member of the Lititz Community
Farm Show Committee.
He is survived by two nieces and a
nephew.
Relatives and Mends are invited to
attend the funeral at the Richard H.
Heisey Funeral Home, 216 S. Broad
SL, Lititz, on Friday, May 23 at 2
p.m., with the Rev. William L. Pfeif­fer
officiating. Interment is in the
Machpelah Cemetery in Lititz. Express.