Lititz Record Express

              THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1998
L i t i t z R e c o r d E x p r e s s
122ND YEAR 28 Pages-No. 10 LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA 30 Cents
□ INSIDE
□ Relay for Life
Lititz team tops state
in cancer fundraiser
“Stayin’ Alive,” a team of
mostly Lititz residents, not
only raised more money last
weekend than any other team
in the Lancaster County Relay
for Life, a fundraiser for the
'American Cancer Society,
Page 22.
□ School
Alternative Ed. junior
is perfect for the year
A year ago, Linette Roonan
vas not what you’d call a
straight “A” student. But today
you would, as the Warwick
High School ju n ior earned
straight “A’s” for the entire
school year in the Alternative
Education program. Her story
and more successes by her
classmates are on Page 6.
□ Church
Moravian music
collection stops here
While on route to North
Carolina, one of the most
extensive historic collections
of Moravian music passed
through Lititz recently. The
Jo h a n n e s Herbs ca ta lo g
stopped by only briefly, but it
will be back at Millersville
University next year for the
Moravian Music F e stival.
Page 1 6 . __________
□ Social
New column explores
your pet’s health
Animal doctors at Warwick
Run Animal Clinic present a
new column about pet health
ssues in this week’s Lititz
Record Express. The first in­stallment
addresses concern
about heartworm. Page 14.
□ Editorial
When is a yard sale
too large?
Many people enjoy having
yard sales, and many enjoy
visiting them... especially the
big ones. But are they causing
problems for neighbors and
police when they become too
big? Richard Reitz explores
this issue in this week’s For
the Record. Page 4.
□ Out of the Past
Why all the sitting?
Forty years ago, some peo­ple
were wondering why some
youths were sitting in comfort­able
chairs for long hours at
Lititz intersections. There was
a good reason, and to find out
why, see Page 21.
□ Sports
Phils top Manheim
The Warwick Phillies sur-
A/ed a Manheim VFW rally to
earn a hard-fought 8-7 victory
last week. For more on their
success, plus a look at plenty
of other local sports news,
see Pages 8-11.
□ Meetings
Monday, June 22, 7 p.m.
— Penn Twp. Supervisors, 97
N. Penryn Road.
Monday, June 22, 7 p.m.
— Warwick School Board, 301
W. Orange St., budget ap­proval
meeting.
Wednesday, June 24, 7
p.m. — Warwick Twp. Plan­ning
Commission.
□ Index
Cell tower invasion is underway
STEPHEN SEEBER
Record Express Staff
LITITZ — The borough antici­pated
a rash of metallic towers litter­ing
the countryside when it updated
its zoning ordinance last year. Now
the reality of cellular phones and the
coinciding technology is here.
Representatives of Pa. Cellular
Telephone were in town this week,
looking for the yes nod from the bor­ough’s
zoning hearing board to con­struct
a 180 foot tower along South
Broad Street.
The board decided to continue tes­timony
to next month’s meeting.
“The main idea here is that we
want to build as few sites as possi­ble,”
said Tony Petropola, a civil
engineer for ¿he communications
company.
The first tower went up in Man­heim
seven years ago at 280 feet. As
consumer demand increased, so did
the need for more towers and new
sites were quickly established in
Neffsville, East Petersburg, Brunner-ville
and Akron.
There is a price to pay for the con­venience
of using a phone while
stuck in thick Route 501 traffic, and
now Pa. Cellular wants Lititz to ante
up. It may not be pretty, but accord­ing
to Petropola and the company’s
lawyer John Arnold, it is necessary in
the grand scheme of a booming tech­nological
market.
That is not to say that Pa. Cellular
is just going to waltz into the general
business district and erect a giant
lightning rod. Several residents and
borough leaders were on hand during
Monday night’s meeting in hopes of
finding an alternative to the massive
size of this proposed tower.
The maximum height of anything
allowed in that district, based on the
borough’s newly amended zoning
ordinance, is 35 feet.
Borough council discussed the
tower in May, found 180 feet to be
excessive, and collectively decided
that they were not in favor of such a
monumental variance.
Council member A1 Olah, who
spoke as a borough resident, sug­gested
Monday that Pa. Cellular may
have created its own hardship by
(See Tower, Page 18)
Baby parade winner
will be lucky 13th
LITITZ — Since 1986, when
young Laura Kroeck of Lititz was
named the first grand prize winner in
the Lititz Fourth of July Baby Parade,
this patriotic prominade has been one
of the most popular events at the
annual celebration.
Once again, parents are encour­aged
to get out the red, white and blue
and create clever, witty and patriotic
costumes and floats for their kids
using the Fourth of July theme, “Let
Freedom Ring.”
Registration for the Baby Parade
begins at 2 p.m. near the Beck
Memorial Band Shell, and the parade
begins at 3 p.m.
First, second and third place rib­bons
will be awarded to children up
to age 4 in the following categories:
Most humorous, prettiest, best use of
Penn Twp.
site OK for
N.Y. sludge
JILL IVEY GAGLIANO_______
Record Express Staff
PENN TOWNSHIP — It looks
as if A & M Composting in Penn
Township will soon be receiving
sludge from New York despite
rumors that the contract fell through.
According to Bill Fox, a lawyer for
J.P. Mascaro and Sons, the firm that
owns A & M, the Mountain Road
plant is in the process of completing
improvements on the air handling
system and will be set to begin pro­cessing
the sludge on July 1.
“We’re ready and willing,” said
Fox.
The improvements are being done
as a result of an agreement with the
Department of Environmental Pro­tection.
The plant came under fire
last fall after neighbors complained
about the odor coming from the
facility.
(See Sludge, Page 20)
red, white and blue, best representa­tion
of the theme, and grand prize.
The grand prize winner receives a
$50 U.S. Savings Bond.
This year’s event, sponsored
annually by the Lititz Women of
Today, is coordinated by Barbara
Gettle. The parade will be judged by
members of the Lititz Chapter of the
American Business Woman’s
Associaton.
Although the Lititz Record
Express files did not show the names
of grand prize winners in 1987-89,
the following youngsters since 1990
have joined the ranks of grand
champions at the Lititz Fourth of July
Baby Parade: 1990 — Kara Knight,
Lititz; 1991 — Marlee Walters,
Lititz; 1992 — Erica Moyer, Lititz;
1993 — Blake Zimmerman, Kaddie
Brandt, Allison Lobb and Genna
Brandt, Lititz; 1994 — Allison Lobb,
Lititz; 1995 — Anne Marie Cranmer,
Lititz; 1996 — Chloe Eberly, Lititz;
1997 — Hayden, Beverly and
Nadine French, Lititz.
For a chance at becoming the
lucky 13th grand prize winner,
check out the graphic and registra­tion
form on page 22.
Photo by Jill Ivey Gagliano
Lori Bardwell, Texas, brought her creative pottery to the Lititz Ambucs craft show despite the morning rain.
Bardwell, who spent several days in the area, came here because of the show. Rain fails to wash away
yearly Crafts in the
JILL IVEY GAGLIANO_______
Record Express Staff
LITITZ — After last Saturday’s
annual Lititz Ambucs Crafts in the
Park, crafters could not be called fair
weather friends.
Despite downpours in the days
before and the morning of the show,
vendors and shoppers alike remained
cheerful, and although approximate­ly
40-percent of the vendors failed to
show because of the weather, turnout
was good.
Coordinator for the show, Anna
“Doodie” Charles, said that they had
a nice crowd of shoppers by after­noon,
other than the fact that it was a
little soggy.
“Once the sun came out, we had a
really good crowd,” said Charles.
“Even before then, people were com­ing
in with umbrellas. The feedback
was veiy, very positive.”
Vendors came from Maryland,
New Jersey, Virginia, and Lititz to
show off their crafts ranging from
homemade dog biscuits and clay
snowmen to a variety of dip mixes,
dried flowers, woodcrafts, and even
people made out of flower pots.
One vendor drove from New
Jersey that morning to attend the
show. Jacquelyn Morgan was sur­prised
by the weather.
“It wasn’t raining in New Jersey,
but once I’m here...,” she said,
adding that she noticed a lot of empty
vendor spaces. “It’s a very weather
determined business.”
Morgan’s puppets, puphats (hats
that can be transformed into pup­pets),
and wearable roadkill were a
popular booth. This was her first Pen­nsylvania
craft show. She usually
works around the Baltimore -
Washington area, as well as Dela­ware
and northern New Jersey.
“I heard about the show through a
friend who said it was good,” said
Morgan.
Morgan has been making puppets
for about twenty years and just
started making the puphats last year.
In addition to craft shows, she also
takes special orders. One of those
(See Craft Show, Page 18) Van rolls over its driver
Other accidents
in area involve
barn, road map
STEPHEN SEEBER
AND RICHARD REITZ
Record Express Staff
ELIZABETH TWP. — A driver
for handicapped people was crushed
beneath the wheels of her van last
Friday in one of this area’s most
bizarre fatalities.
Lydia Q. Wintsch, 61, had gotten
out of the specially-equipped van
that she operated for Lancaster’s PAI
Corporation, which runs group
homes for the developmentally dis­abled,
at 129 W. Lexington Road
around 4:30 p.m. on June 12.
State Police Trooper Joseph
Christaldi, who headed the investiga­tion,
reported that Wintsch failed to
put the white Dodge Ram’s transmis­sion
into park. After she walked to
the passenger side of the vehicle and
opened the door, the van apparently
drifted backward, knocking her to
the ground and ultimately running
over the victim. She was later pro­nounced
dead at the scene by Dr.
William B. Grosh.
Warwick Township Police Officer
Mike Burdge was first on the scene.
Upon his arrival, nearly 20 people
were standing around the van and
Wintsch was still wedged underneath
the front wheels.
A tow truck then lifted the van off
of Wintsch, who was unconscious at
the time, and Lititz Borough Officer
Karl Spidel, who Was called in to
assist, had two unnamed men pull the
victim free.
Births........................... .......... 14
Business...........................18-19
Church........................ ......16-17
Classified................... ......23-27
Editorial / Letters.................... 4
Entertainment............ .......... 12
Manheim News........ ............20
Obituaries.................................2
Out of the Past......... .....21, 23
Police Log................. ............28
School News....................... 6-7
Social.......................... .....14-15
Sports.......................... .......8-11
Photo by Stephen Seeber
Trooper Joseph Christaldi (right) called Friday’s fatal accident on
Lexington Road “bizarre.”
An autopsy has been scheduled,
but police have apparently concluded
the investigation.
Wintsch lived at 710 Wyncroft
Terrace, Lancaster Township, and
had been employed by PAI for sever­al
years.
Friday’s tragedy marked the sec­ond
fatal accident in Elizabeth
Township this year.
Less than a mile from Lexington
Road, a woman was killed in April
when she collided with a garbage
truck at the intersection of Route 501
and Loop Road.
The past week has kept emergency
personnel busy as several other
injury accidents were reported in the
area, including two separate crashes
within a minute of one-another in
Warwick Township.
The investigation is continuing
into why a Manheim motorist left
West Newport Road and crashed into
the side of a bam at 12:54 on June 11.
Warwick police said that Curtis R.
Houchin, 42, of the 1300 block of
Carole Lane, was seriously injured
when for an as-yet-undetermined
reason he lost control of his 1983
Volkswagen Rabbit along the first
block of West Newport Road, and
travelled about 20 yards off of the
road, tearing through a wire fence
and open field before striking a bam
near Plateau Road.
Emergency crews worked for
about 20 minutes to free Houchin
from the wreckage. He was taken to
Lancaster General Hospital, where
he was treated for injuries and
released on June 14.
Warwick police were assisted at
(See Accidents, Page 28)
RICHARD REITZ
Photo by Richard Reitz
Margaret Weber has been weaving for 18 years, and recently her
hard work was recognized, winning second best of show at Arts Atlanti-ca
in Ocean City, Md.
Victory looms over Lititz
a rtis t a t Ocean City show
scarves and shawls.
And not just amongst other artists
in fiber, but against jewlers, painters,
photographers, sculptors and more.
The judge’s choice award replaced
the individual category prizes this
year, so Margaret was the last winner
of Best Fiber Artist in 1997. And
while one of those 11 judge’s choice
awards would have included a $100
prize, the Lititz woman instead found
herself the winner of $1,000.
Margaret, who lives at 26 Green
Acre Road, Lititz, with her husband
Earl, was among 112 artists and craf-
(See Ocean City, Page 22)
Record Express Editor
OCEAN CITY, MD. — After
winning Best Fiber Artist last year at
the annual Arts Atlantica show, Mar­garet
Weber admitted she felt a little
disappointed when her name was not
called for a judge’s choice award this
year.
That disappointment was short­lived.
Judges at the annual juried board­walk
festival awarded her second
place, Best of Show, for her attrac­tive
weavings of blankets, linens,