Lititz Record Express

              THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1999
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□Manheim
A ‘show’ of support
Next Thursday, Manheim
Central will host the Winter
Music Festival, featuring the
Orchestra, Band and Choir. A
collection taken by the Rotary
Club at the concert will be
used to fund two scholarships.
For more on the show, plus a
look at the Manheim Central
Loan Fund, and a planned
community Men’s Chorus, see
Page 20.
□Local Government
New section debuts
This week, the Lititz Record
/p re s s introduces a new
page devoted to local govern­ment
news, from your munici­pal
nappenings, to the latest
action in Harrisburg. Check it
out on Page 21.
□ Church
Living Scripture
This week, Marion Shatto
of Lititz reflects on the cele­bration
of Christmas by the
Lititz Moravian Congregation
in a new column appearing
this week in the Religion sec­tion.
Page 16.
Presents for Pets
Warwick seventh graders
Jennifer Schofield and Janelle
Lowry organized a project that
collected food and other items
for animals at the Humane
League of Lancaster County.
To find out how successful
they were, see Page 6.
□ Social
Healthier Community
Mudryk Chiropractic Group
in Rothsville is hosting a ser­ies
of free community lectures
that promote healthier living
and awareness. To find out
more, see Page 14.
□ Business
Double retirement
As the year 1999 began, an
era in Lititz medicine came to
a close as Dr. Arthur Holder
retired after 40 years at Lititz
Family Practice, as did his
longtime a s s is ta n t, Ginny
Ludwig. Page 18.
□ Sports
Big matchup on the
mat for Warwick
On Saturday, Warwick
faces a tough challenge in its
first Section match as Ephrata
arrives in town in an important
showdown that could deter­mine
th is y e a r’s Section
champion. Page 8.
□ index
Births....................................... 14
Business............... 18-19
Church.............................. 16-17
Classified..........................22-25
Editorial / Letters.................. ..4
Entertainment........................ 12
Government........................... 21
Manheim News......................20
Obituaries.........................2, 17
Out of the Past................ 7, 22
Police....................................... 19
School News................... 6, 22
Social................................ 14-15
Sports.................................. 8-11
Come along
fo r the r id e
Cyclist plans U S
trek with a 'Net
Lititz Retailers’ Association President Lon Heibeck, left, and Broad Street business owner Mike Hess
have some serious concerns with how the borough hall expansion project will be handled. The addressed
their points at last week’s borough council meeting. R e ta ile r s a re w o r r ied
Borough hall construction could hurt businesses
STEPHEN SEEBER__________
Record Express Staff
LITITZ — Downtown retailers
are concerned that construction plans
for a new borough hall this year
could create irreversible damage to
their businesses.
“Customers’ buying habits are
easily changed, and once they’re
changed they’re not coming back,”
said Mike Hess, owner of Hess’s
Clothing Store at 11 S. Broad St.,
which is adjacent to the building set
to be demolished for the borough hall
expansion. “People won’t park on
Main Street and walk around to my
store. They haven’t done it for 28
years and I doubt if they’ll do it in
1999.”
Last year, the borough purchased
9 S. Broad St. with plans to expand
the current borough hall and police
station into a $1.39 million munici­pal
complex. Work, which will start
with the razing of 9 S. Broad, will
start soon.
Now that the Christmas shopping
season is a memoiy, local shop own­ers
are entering the slowest retail
months of the year and Hess believes
dumpsters and construction vehicles
taking up parking spots this winter
would be the nail in the coffin for his
clothing store and the dry cleaning
business that leases space in his shop.
“It won’t take long for a dry clean­ing
business to fail,” he added.
“We’re talking about a 10-month
project.”
Hess addressed his concerns at last
week’s borough council meeting, a
lengthy list that runs the gamut from
an uncooperative project manager in
Ken Hammel to how dust and noise
will affect elderly tenants that live
above his business.
“These axe major concerns,” he
said.
His main issue was with the
removal of metered parking, which
Hess said customers depend on. He is
also not satisfied with how the bor­ough
plans to fix the exterior of his
building after demolition to 9 S.
Broad St. Other concerns include
keeping the rear alley open for
emergency vehicle access in case of
fire, obstruction to Hess’s storefront
from dumpsters and construction
vehicles, disturbances to second
floor tenants and pedestrian safety on
Broad Street.
Representing the rest of the retail­er
community was Lon Heibeck,
(See Boro Hall, Page 26).
RICHARD REITZ_____________
Record Express Editor
LITITZ — This summer. Matt
Nuffort is planning to ride his bicxch-
3,500 miles from Boston to the West
Coast. You can join him if y> vi wish
The 1994 Warwick High School
graduate already has a partner Ibr the
peddling part of the journey. .-<, cm,
don’t need to dust off that <>hl
Schwinn.
But through the use of inoiir-n
technology, he and Jeff Hendci.»>n < >''
Baldwinsville, N.Y. — a friend lioin
Princeton University, where Nuttort
graduated earlier this year — will be
bringing this unique cross-countiy
trek to anyone wishing to participate.
Nuffort and Henderson will be
outfitting their bicycles with a small
video camera mounted on their hand­lebars.
The images captured by the
camera will be broadcast to their web
pages, which will provide an at-this-moment
picture of their journey.
“The theme of this trip is technolo­gy,”
said Nuffort, son of Richard and
Eleanor Nuffort, 612 Becker Drive,
Lititz.
He acknowledges that this will be
a “daunting task, attempting to bring
the trip to the world.” But it is a chal­lenge
he is excited to begin.
If anyone is prepared to undergo
such an athletic and technological
challenge, these two appear to be
capable. Both were members of the
Princeton swim team, where they
met and frequently cycled together.
Now Nuffort is a student at Masse-chussets
Institute of Technology
(MIT) in Boston, and for the past
A 9
Matt Nuffort
year, Henderson has been in Singa­pore.
They have been planning the
trip using their computers, and have
already established a detailed web
page that will only be further
enhanced as the June 1 start date
approaches.
“We are awake every hour of the
day, working on the web page,” Nuf­fort
said.
After dipping their bicycle wheels
in the Atlantic Ocean, Nuffort and
Henderson will head west on an as-yet-
undetermined route. Nuffort said
they hope to cycle about 100 miles a
day, which would take about 6-7
hours. Though he expects it will take
a little longer, he said at that pace,
they could be dipping their wheels in
the Pacific Ocean in 35 days.
Among their gear they will have a
lap-top computer in hand. Each
evening, while the bikes are resting
(See Nuffort, Page 26)
Clues still sought
in fatal accident
RICHARD REITZ_____________
Record Express Editor
WARWICK TWP. — Police
continue the search for clues to
explain what caused a crash involv­ing
a tractor-trailer that claimed the
life of a Lititz man on Dec. 29.
Robert H. Simons, 64, of 509 Deer
Run Road, Lititz, died of injuries he
sustained when his 1990 Lincoln
Town Car struck the trailer of an
oncoming truck along Rothsville
Road at the Heck Road intersection
at 5:30 p.m.
Officer Thomas Lynch, one of
several Warwick officers that work­ed
at the scene, said that the trailer of
the truck, driven by James M. Fergu­son,
52, of Richmond, Ontario, was
empty when he approached a curve
in the road. As he applied the brakes,
Lynch said the trailer of the vehicle
swung into the oncoming lane, where
Simons vehicle was approaching.
He said the Lincoln struck the
back of the trailer, pushing it into the
embankment.
The road was closed for over three
hours as emergency crews worked to
extricate Simons and his wife, Patri­cia,
from the vehicle.
The Simons were both transported
to Lancaster General Hospital, where
Mr. Simons was pronounced dead
shortly after 6:30 p.m. Mrs. Simons
was admitted to the hospital in criti-
(See Fatal Crash, Page 26)
The well that
never runs dry
Endless stream of grant money
keeps watershed work flowing
STEPHEN S E E B E R ________
Record Express Staff
WARWICK TWP. — It may
appear that the Lititz Run Watershed
Alliance has an endless cash flow for
stream restoration projects, but the
fast pace of improvements have more
to do with a local knack for filling out
the right grant applications than any­thing
else.
Since the alliance was formed two
years ago, close to $400,000 in state
and federal grants have been pumped
into making Lititz Run a self-containing
asset to the land it
quenches.
“It’s definately out of the ordin­ary,”
said Mark Gutshall of Landstu-
(See Lititz Run, Page 26)
Photo by Stephen Seeber
A track hoe from B.R. Kreider finishes work on a $25,000 stream
improvement project in Warwick Township this week. So far, the Lititz
Run Watershed Alliance has netted about $400,000 in grantfundingfor
various projects.
Photo by Richard Reitz
Kissel Hill third grader Sarah Bourne demonstrates one of the moves
she learned in a martial arts class she is taking at the Lititz Community
Center.
LCC gives opportunity
for all to participate
RICHARD REITZ_____________
Record Express Editor
LITITZ — When 8-year-old Sar­ah
Bourne moved here from Califor­nia
last June, her grandmother, Nan­cy
Zimmerman, wanted to give her
an opportunity to get involved with
activities at the Lititz Community
Center.
However, with Zimmerman and
Sarah’s mother, Wendy Bourne, on a
fixed income, covering the monthly
cost of a membership was just not
feasible.
Yet since her arrival, Sarah has
been able to swim, play hockey and
ping pong, and even leam martial arts
at the Lititz Community Center, 301
W. Maple St.
For the past eight years, the LCC
has sponsored a “Scholarship Prog­ram,”
designed to assist families that
could utilize a membership, but
might not be able to afford one.
According to Diane Lokey, execu­tive
director of the Center, the prog­ram
provided over $8,000 worth of
memberships between September
1997 and September 1998.
During those years, the program
was sponsored by several donors, but
this year the Center realized that it
has grown to a point where it would
require more support from the
community.
In November, during its annual
(See LCC, Page 11)
Marching
over time
The successes of
the WHS band
JILL GAGLIANO_____________
Record Express Staff
LITITZ — The theme song of the
Warwick instrumental music depart­ment
might as well be “And the Band
Played On.”
Twenty years ago, the Warwick
High School Marching Band won the
State Championship, and although
band has changed in many ways,
their succeess continues. This past
year, the band placed first in the
Chapter 6, Group 2 Championships,
and won seventh out of 25 bands at
the Atlantic Coast Championships.
According to 1978 band member
William Slater, he had a great march­ing
band experience. He said that it is
not fair to compare the band of 20
years ago to today’s band.
“There weren’t as many sports to
pull kids out of the music program,”
said Slater. “The kids of today work
just as hard, if not harder.”
(See Band, Page 26) Borough
wants hot
wings to go
STEPHEN SEEBER__________
Record Express Staff
LITITZ — A Buffalo-style chick­en
wing peddler is leaving a bad taste
in the borough’s mouth.
Mayor Russell Pettyjohn reluc­tantly
issued a permit for Joseph P.
Lutz to open a temporary wing stand
in a South Broad Street parking lot
during the NFL football playoffs this
month
Last week, borough council mem­bers
hinged on denying the request,
citing unfair competition for tax pay­ing
business owners that also sell
chicken wings, in addition to the fear
that fly-by-night stands will see a
window of opportunity that our local
government would prefer stay
closed.
“I’d hate to see this kind of opera­tion
mushroom by letting this one
in,” Mayor Russell Pettyjohn told
council on Dec. 29.
(See Wings, Page 11)