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RICHARD REITZ
□School
Invention Convention
Students at Bonfield
Elementary School demon­strated
their creative talents
last Thursday at the annual
Invention Convention. Read
more about it on Page 6.
□ Entertainment
Now showing
: Alison Fund, a young veter­an
of the First Stage theater,
now has appeared in two
shows at the Dutch Apple
Dinner Theater in Lancaster,
including the current produc­tion
of “The Sound of Music,”
where she stars as one of the
Von Trapp children. Also, Lititz
Christian School is preparing
for its middle school produc­tion
of, “The Secret Garden.”
Page 22.
□ Business
10th pottery show
Lititz artist Steve de Perrot
is preparing for his 10th anni­versary
Holiday Show this
weekend, and he takes a look
back at the path he took to
become one of the borough’s
respected artists. Page 18.
□ Also Inside
Police artist
Warwick Township Police
Sgt. Gary Hutchinson is also a
talented artists, and his latest
sketch, featuring a Rothsville
fire truck, was created to raise
money for the volunteer fire
department. Page 28.
□ Editorial
Lititz Speaks Out
; This week, Steve Seeber
asks local residents if they
believe the Warwick School
District should consider drug
testing for student athletes.
Page 4.
□Social
Craft sh ow s unite
They were two separate
craft shows, but with a com­mon
goal. And organizers for
the two events, sponsored by
the Lititz Women of Today and
Lititz Lioness Club, discov­ered
the benefits of coopera­tion
last Saturday. Page 14.
□ Sports
Warwick fall at sta tes
It’s been a tremendous ride
for the Warwick field hockey
team, but it came to an end
this weekend with a loss to
rival Hempfield. The story is
on Page 8, and a special trib­ute
to our L-L League and
District champion Warriors
appears on Page 12.
□ Index
Births................................. 14
Business.......................18-19
Church.......... ,.............. 16-17
Classified...................... 23-27
•Editorial / Letters................. 4
Entertainment.................... 22
Manheim News................. .20
Obituaries......................... 2-3
Out of the Past............ 23
Police Log...........................19
School News.....................6-7
Social......................... ..14-15
Sports............................. 8-11
Record Express Editor
WARWICK TWP. — The Lititz
Run Watershed Alliance was hon­ored
again for its conservation
efforts, this time during a celebration
of the opening of its latest environ­mental
initiative.
On Tuesday afternoon, about 70
supporters gathered outside the San­to
Domingo Creek Water Quality
Facility for a dedication ceremony.
Twp. se ek s
v iab le p lan
for airport
e x ten sio n
JILL GAGLIANO______________
Record Express Staff
WARWICK TWP. — Before the
Lancaster Airport Authority under­takes
a major extension of one of its
runways, Warwick Township super­visors
want to make sure a few of
their concerns are addressed.
The Authority is planning a rea­lignment
of Millport Road between
Route 501 and Kissel Hill Road to
allow for the extension of the
runway.
In a letter supervisors plan to sub­mit
to the Authority, they request the
protection of agricultural zoned land
in the township by stretching Mill-port
Road along the Manheim Town­ship
municipal boundary. According
to the supervisors the adjacent farms
are considered prime agricultural
tracts and should be protected.
They also want the Authority to
take into consideration the impor­tance
of Kissel Hill Road as ah
important link between the Lititz
area and Lancaster. Any proposed
realignment “must provide for the
continued viability of this road to
serve as an Important north and south
link between the Lititz area and
Lancaster.”
The letter also requests the purch­ase
of agricultural preservation ease-
(See Airport, Page 28)
During the program, Dave Hess of
the State Department of Environ­mental
Protection presented Alliance
President Logan Myers with a plaque
honoring the group’s ongoing con­servation
efforts.
He said projects like this, where
the community and government
unite with a commong goal, are “the
future of environmental protection.
“Mark (Gutshall) brought a huge
map into my office, explaining all of
the projects,” he said. “Lo and
behold, we are getting those projects
done.”
Hess added that it is the communi­ty
that is making this a reality. “It is
tremendous to see this come
together.”
After several years of planning,
work on the water quality facility
began in mid-September, culminat­ing
with a Community Planting Day
on Sept. 19 involving over 100 vol­unteers.
Work at the site was finished
on Oct. 7.
As winter weather creeps into the
region, the 2.6 acre tract looks barren
and unassuming. But by next year,
when the plants mature and the half-completed
observation deck is fin­ished,
the impact of this effort will be
In te r e s t in ou r fu tu r e is g r ow in g
400 attend forum
to share concerns
STEPHEN SEEBER_________
Record Express Staff
LITITZ — Warwick Middle
School was an exciting place to be
last weekend because for the first
time an entire community had a
hand in creating its future.
Approximately 400 people
came through to talk with many of
the region’s civic clubs, watch a
high school production of Lititz in
the year 2015 and absorb much of
the data on growth and develop­ment
that has been collected over
the past several months.
P a rtic ip a tio n d e fin ite ly
increased from the September
focus groups and John Hohman,
one of joint strategic planning’s
steering committee members, said
that Nov. 14 was by no means
“ o u r l a s t p a r t i c ip a t i o n
opportunity.”
While many Lititz and War­wick
Township residents may
remain apathetic toward this long­term
planning project, those who
do take an interest in their com­munity’s
future arc making an
impact. Hohman and his co­committee
members hope that last
Saturday’s success becomes
breeds more interest.
Sam Hess of East Market Street
did not participate in the focus
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Steering committee member Karen Weibel talks to County Com­missioner
Paul Thibault about the future of Lititz and Warwick
Township.
the borough. It’s become clear to
me that without planning and
cooperation between these mun­icipalities,
things could get pretty
bad around here.”
Perhaps the most important
aspect of this forum was that regu­lar
taxpayers, not politicians or
government committees, were
expressing their concerns. And
they were being heard.
“They let me talk and I thought
that was great,” said Scott Gar-man,
a resident of Saint Timothy
Court.
group meetings, but he was on
hand Saturday and he was
impressed.
“I thought that the organizers
did an excellent job,” he said. “I
was bom in the borough, grew up
in the township and now live in (See Forum, Page 4)
Foundation grants enhance education
RICHARD REITZ
Record Express Editor
LITITZ — Only a year after the
Warwick Education Foundation was
established to fund educational ini­tiatives,
its impact is already being
felt.
The Allocations Committee of the
Foundation recently approved its
first 10 grant requests totalling over
$5,000 — submitted by educators
teaching within the Warwick School
District boundaries.
Those grants ranged from a $100
request for a fourth grade “satellite”
trip to Colonial Williamsburg, to a
$1,000 grant for an improved com­puter
hardware system in a school
library.
“I was extremely satisfied that so
early in the development of the
Foundation, we were able to give
donations,” said Krista Varano, chair
of the Allocations Committee.
She said 25 grant proposals were
received, including 20 from teachers
in the Warwick School District.
Three were received from Lititz
Christian School, and two from Lin­den
Hall.
Varano said it wasn’t easy narrow­ing
down the field of applicants,
which were judged by a panel eva­luating
the merits of each request.
The schools that submitted each
request were not known by the
judges until after the requests were
approved, she said.
Samuel Stoler, fifth grade teacher
at John Beck Elementary, said the
$500 grant he requested will be used
to purchase a new weather instru­ment
to enhance the school’s weather
curriculum.
“The instruments we use now are
old and outdated,” Stoler said. The
new instrument will be more “high
tech” and will measure wind speed
and direction, temperature highs and
lows, barometric pressure, humidity,
rainfall, and even forecast the
weather.
“It will be a real up-to-date way to
work with the unit,” he said. “I’mjust
real excited about it, and so are the
kids.”
It will be utilized by the 90-some
students in the fifth grade this year
and for years to come — but other
students and adults at the school will
also have access to this learning tool.
Without the Education Foundation
grant, Stoler is not sure when an
update would have taken place.
“It probably would not have been
possible. I would have begged, bor-
(See Education, Page 28)
more noticable.
The racility is designed to use
plants and ponds as a natural filtra­tion
system, trapping and reducing
nutrients and sediments that would
otherwise enter thé Santo Domingo
Creek and eventually contaminate
the Lititz Run Watershed.
“One of the biggest benefits will
be the wildlife habitat this facility
attracts,” said Gutshall of LandSto­dies
Inc. of Lititz to the group.
(See Santo Domingo, Page 28)
Elizabeth gets
ready to clean
up Groff land
STEPHEN~SEEBER~
Record Express Staff
BRICKERVILLE — Tempers
were flaring in Elizabeth Township
last week as accused junkyard opera­tor
Daniel Groff threatened to sue
each supervisor individually.
The township government voted
in favor of pursuing bids for a con­tractor
to clean up Groff’s Furnace
Hills Pike property.
This 20-year-old battle centers on
what the supervisors call a blatant
disregard for the zoning ordinance,
which does not allow for junkyards
where Groff lives. Groff, a local hay
hauler, on the other hand, claims that
his “junk” is part of his livlihood and
that his business pre-dates zoning’s
implementation in the township in
1970.
The issues have worked their way
through the court system, in favor of
the township’s right to enforce its
law, but Groff has since filed an $18
million lawsuit against the local and
state government.
Last Monday, the conflict resur­faced
when the supervisors, deter­mined
to end this stand-off as soon as
possible, voted to move, forward un
getting a waste removal contactor
onto Groffs property.
“You guys are all wrong,” Groff
shouted after the decision. “It’s pri­vate
property. You guys stay the hell
off or I will bring you into this civil
suit as individuals.”
Supervisor Chairman Larty Wiker
told Groff that he could not intimi­date
the board and that it was time to
move ahead.
Groff persisted, shouting claims of
descrimination.
Wiker decided that the conversa­tion
was no longer productive after
Groff referred to the supervisors as
“dumb jerks.” Groff was cut off and
the supervisors voted in favor of
advertising for bids.
B o r o u g h h a l l e x p a n s i o n
w i l l b e g i n i n J a n u a r y
STEPHEN SEEBER
K i d s h o n o r e d f o r p e t - s a v i n g a e t i o n
BRUCE MORGAN
After being honored by the Lancaster Heart Foundation at John R.
Bonfield Elementary School recently, (l-r) Ryan Lynch, Jenna Rae
Lynch, and Suzanne Simonelli smother Sammy with lots of hugs.
Record Express Staff
LITITZ — Jenna Rae Lynch
probably never thought she would
have to use cardiopulmonary resusci­tation
as soon as she did.
A sixth-grader at John R. Bonfield
Elementary School, Jenna Rae, 11,
learned CPR justlastyearin Dr. Judy
Hudelson’s fifth-grade class.
And it was just two months ago
that she and her 9-year-old brother
Ryan and their 9-year-old friend
Suzanne Simonelli put it to use to
save Sammy, the Lynch’s 3-year-old
chocolate Labrador.
Sammy had fallen into a pool and
nearly drowned, but the quick
actions of the trio saved his life.
On Thursday, Nov. 5 at Bonfield
Elementary, the Lancaster Heart
Foundation, as part of its Student
Recognition Program, honored Jen­na
Rae, Ryan, and Suzanne for their
feat.
Each student received a certificate
of recognition for performing CPR,
along with hats and magnets from the
Heart Foundation. They also
received gift certificates to Border’s
Book Store and Domino’s Pizza and
ones for Sammy to That Pet Place,
Woof and Tails, and JPetology.
(See Lifesavers, Page 12)
Record Express Staff
LITITZ — Work on a new $1.39
million borough hall should begin in
Januaiy.
Members of the Lititz Zoning
Hearing Board voted unanimously
Monday night to approve a few
minor project elements that fell out­side
the confines of the local
ordinance.
With only a few cosmetic details
to be hammered out in the next
month, Ken Hammel, the plan’s
designer, expects to demolish the
current building at 9 S. Broad St. and
expand the current office complex to
two addresses. Construction will
take about 10 months, during which
time the borough and police depart­ment
will set up temporary shop at
the Lititz Fire Company on West
Main Street.
“This has been needed for a long
time,” said council member A1 Olah
Monday. The current facility at 7 S.
Broad St. has not been upgraded
since 1978 and is considered
cramped and inadequate.
Council President Dennis Stuckey
said that at least three other locations
were considered for the new borough
hall, the most recent one being the
former shoe factory at Walnut Street
and Lockup Lane.
“That building was for sale but it
would have needed a lot of work,” he
said. “We would have been spending
a lot of money to move away from
the middle of town. We feel it’s
important for the local government to
be in the downtown area.”
With that in mind, the borough
was fortunate that their next door
neighbor Mike Barnhart decided to
sell his property last year. Council
jumped at the opportunity and pur­chased
9 S. Broad St. for $163,000 in
(See Boro, Page 12)
This sketch plan for a bigger and better borough hall is expected to
become reality by the end of next year.