Lititz Record Express

              THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1999
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P u b l i c a t i o n
122ND YEAR 26 Pages - No. 43 LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA 30 Cents
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□ Business
Enhanced Dance
The staff at Cricket’s
Schooi of Performing Arts in
Manheim recently expanded.
For more details about the
school and its new staff, see
Page 18.
New wedding shop
A new shop specializing in
wedding attire has opened in
downtown Lititz. For more
about the shop and its owner,
Karen Chow, see Page 18.
□ Church
Church concerts
Several concerts are
.scheduled at local congrega­tions.
The Lititz Moravian
'Church congregation will kick
off its 250th anniversary with
an organ recital, while a multi-congregational
handbell con­cert
is planned this weekend
at St. Paul Evangelical
Lutheran Church on West
Orange Street.. Page 16.
Daniel Garrett
Another
Garrett
seeks D.J.
position
RICHARD REITZ_____________
Record Express Editor
Borough faces police shortage
STEPHEN SEEBER__________
Record Express Staff
LITITZ — The wheels are in
motion to have two new police offic­ers
in town in time for the Fourth of
July.
Despite acclaimed law enforce­ment
efficiency as outlined in last
week’s release of the 1998 annual
Lititz police report, borough council
accepted the department’s second
resignation in the past four months.
Both Mayor Russell Pettyjohn and
Police Chief Douglas Shertzer
requested council’s support to fill the
void of a two-officer deficit. Last
week, council members stepped up
to the plate and the first ads for open­ings
on the force were placed in the
Sunday News on Jan. 31.
It should be made clear that there
is no exodus spawned by brewing
discontent among our local officers.
Both resignations were unique situa­tions
that have coincidentally fallen
within a short time span.
The most recent resignation, that
of 10-year officer Carolyn Scnscnig,
was “accepted with regret” during
last week’s council meeting. Sense-nig,
hailed by her supervisors has one
of Lititz’s finest-ever, became a
proud mother last year and recently
decided to focus more on parenting
for the time being. It’s a decision that
everyone respects, but it’s still hard
to see one of the borough’s favorite
officers leave.
“Carolyn is one of the best police
officers that I’ve ever worked with or
known in my career, and I am very
much at a loss of words in describing
her resignation,” Shertzer said. “And
I certainly feel that members of our
department will suffer a tremendous
loss, as well as the community.”
Sensenig received a special award
from the Lititz VFW for stopping a
robbety at the Turkey Hill Minit
Market in November 1997. She spot­ted
a York man while he was setting
up his crime on South Broad Street.
After a brief chase and arrest, a
.45-caliber gun, bullets, a knife and
LSD were all found and a potentially
fatal situation was avoided.
Her tenure with the Lititz depart­ment
will come to a close on July 31,
exactly 10 years after her first day on
the force.
“It was a tough decision,” Sense­nig
said. “But I have to tend to the
needs of my family at this point and
that’s the priority of my life.”
Last September, Council accepted
the resignation of Officer James T.
Young, who joined the force in 1995.
He left the borough to fulfill his life-
(See New Police, Page 26)
Photo by Richard Reitz
The Lititz Train Station, which is a replica of the second station that stood at the entrance of Lititz Springs
Park from its construction in 1884 to its demolition in 1957, is nearly completed, and plans for a community
dedication ceremony are being made for May 8.
Dress for the occasion
Musings
. Marian Shatto takes a look
'at the anniversary of the Lititz
Moravian Church, founded on
Feb. 9, 1749, in her “Musings”
column. Page 16.
□School
Local performers
This weekend, a few of
Warwick High School’s top
singers and musicians will be
performing in honor ensem­bles.
Four students will
appear with the Lebanon
Valley College Honors Band
for a Feb. 6 concert, while six
singers will appear at the
District Chorus festival at
Elizabeth College for shows
on Feb. 5 and 6. Page 6.
□ Manheim
Penryn Fire officers
The Penryn Fire Company
recently honored its new
elected officers for 1999,
including President Tom
Walsh and Fire Chief Gerald
Wolfe. For a complete listing,
see Page 20.
□ Out of the Past
Groundhog’s guess
While another Groundhog
Day has come and gone, it
remains a tradition that pops
up quite a bit in Lititz history,
such as 10 years ago, when
“Brunnerville Bruno” was
called into shadow-spotting
service. More about Bruno’s
predictions, plus a look at a
local woman’s ordeal in 1979
in hostile Iran are on Pages
13 and 17.
□ Government
A zoning officer
and a gentleman
This week’s Municipal
Profile takes a look at Tom
Zorbaugh, Warwick Township
Zoning Officer. Page 21.
□ Sports
Basketball action
The boys and girls basket­ball
teams are continuing to
fight for playoff spots, and on
Tuesday night each squad
squared off against Solanco.
How did they do? Find out
these scores and more on
Pages 8-11.
□ Index
Births..................................... 14
Business.......................... 18-19
Church............................. 16-17
Classified.........................22-25
Editorial / Letters................... 4
Entertainment.......................12
Government................... 21-22
Manheim News.................... 20
Obituaries............................2-3
Out of the Past............. 13, 17
Police Log..............................4
School News.......................6-7
Social.............................. 14-15
Sports................................ 8-11
WARWICK TWP. — As a high
school teacher for the past 32 years,
Daniel Garrett has seen how positive
influences and role models can
impact a teenager’s outlook on the
future.
As a Warwick Township supervi­sor
for the past six years, he has
worked closely with law enforce­ment,
and seen how public officials
can impact the landscape of an entire
community.
As a business owner, he has exper­ienced
the frustration of dealing with
delinquent payments from clients
who have a tough time balancing
their personal budgets.
Now, as a candidate for district
justice, Garrett is hoping to utilize
these experiences to serve the com­munity
as one of its enforcers of local
laws.
Garrett admits that it’s an unusual
step for someone without a degree in
law. Though district justices are
often perceived as lawyers, it is not a
requirement.
“I have a lot of background in a lot
of parallel experiences,” the 53-year-old
father of two said. He added that
all district justices are required to
take annual courses, and he has
already spent time “shadowing” cur­rent
District Justice James Garrett
(no relation), which gave him the
(See Garrett, Page 26)
at stake in
JILL G A G L IA N O __________
Record Express Staff
LITITZ — General John A. Sut­ter
is proving to be a controversial
figure.
Gold that was found on Sutter’s
sawmill in California in 1848
sparked the Gold Rush. Sutter spent
the last years of his life residing in
Lititz, frequently travelling to
Washington, D.C. in an effort to
claim money he felt he was owed
from his. property lost to the Gold
Rush. He was unsuccessful in his
pleas, and is buried in the Moravian
Church Cemeteiy.
Bell tower
park being
considered
STEPHEN SEEBER___________
Record Express Staff
LITITZ — The demolition of a
downtown church is at least three
months away. The question now is
what will the comer of South Broad
and West Orange streets look like a
year from now?
Derek & Edson, local landscape
architecture and engineering firm,
has created about a dozen prelimin­ary
sketches for an urban park where
the hollow 1911 Lutheran church
now stands. But a small leisure area
is probably the only thing close to
certain right now as plans are veiy
preliminary.
A1 Olah, chairman of the bor­ough’s
building committee, met with
neighbors of the church last
weekend, setting the pace for the
(See Bell Tower, Page 26)
Warwick
share of
lawsuit
is $83K
RICHARD REITZ_____________
Record Express Editor
LITITZ — The Warwick School
Board got its wish last week when the
Lancaster County Career and Tech­nology
Center’s Joint Operating
Committee voted to send the asbes­tos
lawsuit money back to the indivi­dual
districts.
Donald Cromer, school board
director and Warwick’s representa­tive
on the Career and Technology
Center board, told the board at its
Tuesday meeting that the Joint Oper­ating
Committee voted to divide
nearly $2 million between the 16 dis­tricts,
following one of its most voli-tile
meetings to date.
“As a result of the discussion, the
superintendent (Richard C. Burley)
proposed that the money would go
(See Asbestos, Page 26)
California
His life is legendary. However,
wire reports printed recently in the
Intelligencer Journal are stating that
Jack Forbes, a California historian,
recently tried to persuade city coun­cil
in Davis, Calif. —- near the sight
of Sutter’s sawmill — to change to
name of a cul-de-sac from Sutter
Place to Shasta Way.
The change was voted down 3-2
last week.
The wire reports that Forbes told
council that Sutter was an “immoral
man, a sexual predator, a rapist, and
an enslaver of native Californians."
Although the vote prompted com­plaints
from several Californians,
Lititz residents have a different view.
Historian of the Lititz Historical
Foundation Gladys Crowl said that
Sutter was a man of many faces who
liked to exaggerate his past. She said
that he was a very, very kind man, but
was many faceted.
“You can’t say he was all good or
all bad,” said Crowl.
According to Crowl, one example
of Sutter’s kindness is that he sent
four rescue parties to Dormer’s Pass
where he helped save approximately
40 people.
Crowl said she thinks Forbes
being unfair and added that there are
many Californians who respect Sut­ter
and visit his Lititz gravesite. She
said Sutter opened up California and
was a vital part of their being.
Crowl acknowledged that there
are reports of Sutter treating workers
and women poorly and of his having
slaves, but she said people need to
remember the time period.
“At that time people who could
have slaves did. It was part of the
mode of living,” she said, adding that
even Thomas Jefferson had slaves.
“Who are we to judge him?”
(See Sutter, Page 26)
Dedication
of station
is May 8
RICHARD REITZ_____________
Record Express Editor
LITITZ — The official dedica­tion
of the Lititz Train Station may
still be three months away, but you
might want to start thinking about
what you will wear to the historic
event.
Organizers have announced that
the ceremony will be held on Satur­day,
May 8, and though the complete
schedule of events have not yet been
finalized, the goal is to create a nos­talgic
celebration that captures life
during “the heyday of railroading.”
That is how Ronald Reedy has
described their dream for the dedica-i
i c - i u « S t a t i o n
tion of the facility still under con­struction
at the edge of Lititz Springs
Park, which is designed as a replica
of the second Lititz Passenger Depot
and Express Station of the Reading
and Columbia Rail Road, first built in
1884.
In order to give the celebration that
nostalgic flavor, they are encourag­ing
participants to wear clothing
from the era between the 1860s and
1920s, when the train station was the
heart of the town.
“People wore a lot of hats in those
days,” Reedy said, so he envisions
men wearing straw hats and derbys,
and perhaps even sport the facial hair
of the day ; while women may choose
to wear bonnets and carry parasols
with their long dresses.
Military uniforms will also be
encouraged, and Reedy said a Civil
War encampment is planned for die
dedication.
On that morning, Reedy hopes to
recreate a photo taken many years
ago at the train station, which shows
a large crowd waiting to board the
departing steamer.
Historic attire is just one of many
ways the Lititz Springs Park Board is
hoping to recapture die past on that
day.
Plans include a community para­de,
organized by the Lititz Lions
Club, which will begin at 10 a.m. A
parade route has not yet been set, but
Reedy said it will resemble the pro­cessions
that used to march through
town around die tom of die century.
(See Train Station, Page 26)
Wild at Art
_____________ Photo by Richard Rei
WARWICK M.S. ARTISTS LEARN FROM A PRO— Lancaster painter Steve Goss (seated) has bee
working with several eighth grade artists at Warwick Middle School since September, creating two larg
murals for the school’s cafeteria. With the help of students like Kevin Donmoyer (standing), the finishin
touches on both murals were finally placed last week. The paintings are education-themed, with on
encouraging “Soar to New Heights of Learning,” and another multi-cultural-themed painting of severs
wild animals enjoying a variety of food items for lunch. For more on this project, see School News on Pag
6 .
Sutter’s reputation is