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THURSDAY\ APRIL 8, 1999 L ititz Record Express ^ a r d - W in n i j j P u b l i c a t i o n 122ND YEAR Pages - No. 52 LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA 30 Cents □ INSIDE Spring park clean-up The annual Lititz Springs Park clean-up day is scheduled for this Saturday, April 10. Members of the community are urged to bring the family on this morning to help make the park beautiful for the upcoming season. The Lititz Jaycees will offer free donuts and coffee for breakfast and free hot dogs for .lunch to anyone who attends. □School Lititz El Survey The results are in from the survey conducted by the Warwick School District concerning the future of the Lititz Elementary School building, and were presented to the School board at their Tuesday meeting. Also at the meeting, parents concerned about walking distances expressed their feelings to the board. For the full details, see Page 6. □ Back Page Fasting for Freedom Warwick High School graduate Karen McCready wanted to do something for the refugees fleeing Kosovo, and has started a project that she hopes will raise money and awareness for their plight. Page 26. Book and Bake Sale The Lititz Woman's Club’s annual Book and Bake Sale returns to the Lititz Community Center this Saturday, and features local teacher and author Betty Narkiewicz. Page 26. □ Entertainment ‘R e a l l y R o s i e ’ First Stage Theatre in Lititz will present the return of the popular family musical “Really Rosie,” which premieres this weekend. Page 12. □ Editorial : For the Record Daniel Groff was well-known to many people in this area, and since he took his life during a standoff on his property last week, people have continued to debate the events that lead to his death. Editor Richard Reitz takes a closer look at the situa+inn ™ Page 4. □ Social Downtown L il'f Illustrator Dan Barthold is now offering a limited s'gned set of drawings featuring both sides of Main Street in Lititz The sale of the prints benefits the Lititz Public Library oook endowment fund. Page 14 □ Out of the Past A frightening thought Fifty years ago this week, a speaker came to Lititz and suggested that American democracy efforts in Germany were failing, and that Adolf Hitler was still alive and in hiding. Pages 13,17. □ Sports Warrior victories The Warwick High School asebail and soccer teams jened their section play with dories. Read all about local >orts on Pages 8-11. □ I n d e x Births......................... ...........14 Business................. . ..... 16-17 Church...................... ......20-21 Classified.................. ..... 21-25 Editorial / Letters.... ............. 4 Entertainment.......... ...........12 Government............. ...........18 Manheim News........ ...........19 Obituaries................ ..........2-3 Out of the Past........ .... 13, 17 Police Log.......... ...........21 School News........... .......... 6-7 Social............. .......... .... 14-15 Sports....................... ........ 8-11 Groffs cleanup resumes “I f it wouldn’t have been for the litigation, I could have finished the work long ago. ” —Daniel Groff 1651 Furnace Hills Pike in December concerning the township ’s effort to clean up his property “This has gone onfar too long and it’s time to move on. ” —Larry Wiker former supervisor chair in December on Groff’s persistence STEPHEN S EEB ER ________ Record Express Staff ELIZABETH TWP. — There are two very different views to the three-decade battle over landuse along Furnace Hills Pike. Last week’s tragic end to the saga, when Groff committed suicide after a three-hour armed stand-off with police, has hazed the underlying currents of the Groff-township relationship, currents that quickly turned to rapids. When Groff filed his $18 million lawsuit against the government last year, he smiled conceitedly as he personally handed out the papers to township officials. Zoning’s elusive junkman seemed to find enjoyment in creating discomfort for those who would dare tell him what he could or could not do on his property. In a September 1998 interview at his Furnace Hills Pike home, he told the Record Express that he did not expect any of his lawsuits to be successful. He had convinced himself that his battle with various supervisor administrations was personal, and that his ongoing legal maneuvers and strategics weren’t designed to be successful. They were intended to be atjioyLig. Cleanup work at Groff s property quietly resumed this Monday, just one week after the self-proclaimed alchemist was martyred in the defense of his livelihood. In the wake of the tragedy, the contractor hired by Elizabeth Township to clear junk off Groffs property has (See Groff, Page 26) ¡B ili ■ H H - ■» H B i l h i - h i i 5 2 5 ‘St Photo by Richard Reitz Victor Capecce puts some finishing touches on a gorilla backdrop, one of many set designs he created for the upcoming show “Hollywood Live!” at the American Music Theatre in Lancaster. The sets for the show were created in his Lititz studio. ‘Hollywood’ is set, thanks to Lititz production crew RICHARD REITZ Record Express Editor LITITZ — Classic Hollywood will come to life this weekend at the American Music Theatre in a musical revue that features a dazzling set created here in Lititz. Victor Capecce, producing director for the American Music Theatre in Lancaster, constructs the massive backdrops and stage props in a portion of the warehouse behind Bomberger’s store at 555 Furnace Hills Pike. Capecce has been creating their sets since it first opened in April 1997. Since the first “Holiday Treasures” show later that year, he has been working on the sets in Lititz. He and his crew have just completed the set for one of the young theater’s most ambitious productions yet “Hollywood Live’” opens this Friday and will run through June 30, and features a cast of 2.1 singers and Map museum may close STEPHEN SEEBER dancers, 11 musicians and numerous recreations of memorable scenes, past and present, from some of Hollywood’s greatest movies. Capecce is hestitant to reveal all of the spectacular pieces that will be featured in this show. “There will be a couple of major surprises,” he promised. But he said some of the more impressive features were a mechanical trolley that will hold nine passengers, a “stage within a stage,” and a special floor for the “Singin’ in the Rain” scene that will allow for it to actually rain on the stage, and pump the water away. Even the logo that the theater is using to promote the show is a rendition of one of the large backdrops for the show. By last Friday, most of the sets had been taken to the stage, though a few pieces, such as a 24-fool by 72-foot painting of a gorilla, were receiving a few more details. (See “HollywooNil Live!”, Page 12) Boro hall project to start soon STEPHEN SEEBER__________ Record Express Staff LITITZ — Demolition work at 9 S. Broad St., making way for a new state-of-the-art borough hall and police station, could begin by the end of this month. Borough council awarded $1.47 million in contracts last week, bringing the adjusted cost estimate of expanding the local government under budget. In January, the Record Express reported that Hammel Architects of Lancaster, hired by the borough to design the project, miscalculated its cost figures by about $300,000. Apparently the additional expense of police-standard building materials like bulletproof glass were not factored into the initial judgement. A compromised valuation was made at $1,504,716 and now the project appears back on track. Council received a total of 18 bids to do the work, which will be the first major upgrade to borough hall since 1978-79. The contracts were awarded to the following four firms: Caldwell, Heckles and Egan Inc. of Lancaster will provide general contracting duties for $992,800. •R.S. Reidenbaugh Corp., located at 130 Rodney Lane in Lititz, will do the electrical work for $144,800. Greg’s Mechanical of Reading will receive $95,704 for installing the plumbing at the new facility. •Houser Construction of Lebanon will be paid $245,500 for overseeing the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning work that will need to be done. Borough manager Sue Barry said this week that work will begin with the razing of the building next to the (See Boro Hall, Page 18) Record Express Staff LITITZ — Between now and this fall, the future of the Heritage Map Museum will remain unclear. Last week, the Record Express reported that Paul Brown of Man-heim was in the process of purchasing the large industrial building at 55 N. Water St., current home of Jim Hess’ collection of centuries old maps, from Clair Brothers Audio Entertainment. Brown received evidential approval from the borough’s zoning board, its engineer, planning commission chairman and the borough council for the creation of a Lititz version of the Artworks at Doneck-ers. He plans to renovate the interior of the building for a series of retail boutiques, a small cafe and a walking garden. Brown has gotten all the local government approval that he needs to proceed and once he finances the cost of this major project it could be in place by this autumn, becoming the biggest tourist attraction addition to the borough in some time. “We’re going to bring in more buses than Lititz has ever seen,” Brown told council last week as he explained a walking tour of the borough that would incorporate Sturgis Pretzel House, 55 N. Water St. and the Wilbur Chocolate Factoty. Amid all the excitement, everyone seemed to forget about the map museum, a five-year tenant of the building and a strong member of the business and historical community, as well as an educational asset. In a statement released Tuesday, Hess had this to say about the museum’s future in Lititz: “Very simply, Mr. Brown has not presented me with any rational business occupancy plan; so, the museum would be forced to close. May, 1999 will represent the museum’s five-year anniversary. I am very grateful for the overwhelming response we’ve received from individuals from all over the world. Additionally, thousands of school children showed us their natural enjoyment of histoiy and art as dis- (See Map Museum, Page 26) Experts, go-cart neighbors sound off in track debate RICHARD REITZ Record Express Editor WARWICK TWP. — Last month, a sound engineer used mathematical extrapolation and one go-cart to explain how 20 on a proposed track would not significantly impact a nearby neighborhood. But at a March 31 hearing, another sound expert hired by opponents of Samuel High’s proposed track at High Sports Inc. north of Lititz, used an actual sound simulation to demonstrate how the impact may be more audible by those neighbors. That evening supervisors also heard stories from two men who live near go-cart tracks, and whose daily lives are impacted by the constant hum of the carts — including one who said he received a lower tax assessment on his property as a result. Attendance at this meeting dropped compared to the previous two, with about 150 in attendance — but once again, populated mostly with opponents to the track. To assess the validity of the fig- John High demonstrates one of the go-carts before a large crowd at the March hearing. ures proposed at last month’s hearing by High’s sound engineer Rick Hed-den, Warwick Township requested sound engineer P. Diane Mountain of Annapolis, Md. review his results. “I have no issues or discrepancies with the methodology or guidelines used,” Mountain said of Hedden’s report, which used the sound of one go-cart at the site and mathmatieally expanded the figures to mimic 20 cars. “I think the measurement with the actual cart is an appropriate assessment and the extrapolation of up to 20 carts is valid.” She did suggest that using Penn- DOT’s noise regulations is not an accurate way to gauge the noise that will be produced by the go-carts. “Highway noise doesn’t have much to do with the impact that this will have on local residents.” She suggested that High submit to frequent decibel testing, which he has already agreed to. Mountain also said a fence with no cracks or gaps, and at least five centimeters thick, could create a 15 decibel reduction. The closer the fence is to the track, the more effective it is, she said. During cross-examination, Mountain acknowledged that there can be a difference in sounds at the same decibel level. Eighty decibels of fingernails scratching is not the same as 80 decibels of Mozart. “It’s more than just the decibel level, it’s also the frequency of the sound,” she said. A sound that is concentrated in one frequency tends to (See Go-Cart, Page 18) ,J t ■*. . M ^(SëJêÈ J— —« -A ; / * . : ‘ ■ *£'' V r J,„4 »fl« J z ., - , ■ i t t i a '. r s W & i P i Photo by Richard Reitz On Tuesday, Marion Bowman celebrated her 106th birthday at United Zion Home, with Dorothy Burcaw and other friends and well-wishers from Lititz Moravian Church. Lifelong Lititz resident marks a century plus 6 WARWICK TWP. — Marion C. Bowman, quite possibly the oldest resident living in the Lititz area, celebrated another birthday on Tuesday. Marion celebrated her 106th birthday at a special party organized by Dorothy Burcaw, pastor at Lititz Moravian Church. The early afternoon party was attended by Marion’s friends and well-wishers from the church, and instead of birthday cake, they each enjoyed a slice of Moravian sugar cake, naturally. Marion, who still insists that she is actually two years younger than her actual age, was bom on April 6, 1893 on South Broad Street in Lititz. She has lived at United Zion Retirement Home for the past 23 years, and is its oldest resident Marion attended Linden Hall School for Girls from kindergarten through age 12. She then attended the public school until her sophomore year, finishing her schooling about a decade before the construction of the Lititz High School building (now Lititz Elementary). Marion went on to work for several years at the Lititz Shirt Factoty, and she also cleaned homes and did laundry, always remaining in the Lititz area. (See Bowman, Page 14)
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Full Text | THURSDAY\ APRIL 8, 1999 L ititz Record Express ^ a r d - W in n i j j P u b l i c a t i o n 122ND YEAR Pages - No. 52 LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA 30 Cents □ INSIDE Spring park clean-up The annual Lititz Springs Park clean-up day is scheduled for this Saturday, April 10. Members of the community are urged to bring the family on this morning to help make the park beautiful for the upcoming season. The Lititz Jaycees will offer free donuts and coffee for breakfast and free hot dogs for .lunch to anyone who attends. □School Lititz El Survey The results are in from the survey conducted by the Warwick School District concerning the future of the Lititz Elementary School building, and were presented to the School board at their Tuesday meeting. Also at the meeting, parents concerned about walking distances expressed their feelings to the board. For the full details, see Page 6. □ Back Page Fasting for Freedom Warwick High School graduate Karen McCready wanted to do something for the refugees fleeing Kosovo, and has started a project that she hopes will raise money and awareness for their plight. Page 26. Book and Bake Sale The Lititz Woman's Club’s annual Book and Bake Sale returns to the Lititz Community Center this Saturday, and features local teacher and author Betty Narkiewicz. Page 26. □ Entertainment ‘R e a l l y R o s i e ’ First Stage Theatre in Lititz will present the return of the popular family musical “Really Rosie,” which premieres this weekend. Page 12. □ Editorial : For the Record Daniel Groff was well-known to many people in this area, and since he took his life during a standoff on his property last week, people have continued to debate the events that lead to his death. Editor Richard Reitz takes a closer look at the situa+inn ™ Page 4. □ Social Downtown L il'f Illustrator Dan Barthold is now offering a limited s'gned set of drawings featuring both sides of Main Street in Lititz The sale of the prints benefits the Lititz Public Library oook endowment fund. Page 14 □ Out of the Past A frightening thought Fifty years ago this week, a speaker came to Lititz and suggested that American democracy efforts in Germany were failing, and that Adolf Hitler was still alive and in hiding. Pages 13,17. □ Sports Warrior victories The Warwick High School asebail and soccer teams jened their section play with dories. Read all about local >orts on Pages 8-11. □ I n d e x Births......................... ...........14 Business................. . ..... 16-17 Church...................... ......20-21 Classified.................. ..... 21-25 Editorial / Letters.... ............. 4 Entertainment.......... ...........12 Government............. ...........18 Manheim News........ ...........19 Obituaries................ ..........2-3 Out of the Past........ .... 13, 17 Police Log.......... ...........21 School News........... .......... 6-7 Social............. .......... .... 14-15 Sports....................... ........ 8-11 Groffs cleanup resumes “I f it wouldn’t have been for the litigation, I could have finished the work long ago. ” —Daniel Groff 1651 Furnace Hills Pike in December concerning the township ’s effort to clean up his property “This has gone onfar too long and it’s time to move on. ” —Larry Wiker former supervisor chair in December on Groff’s persistence STEPHEN S EEB ER ________ Record Express Staff ELIZABETH TWP. — There are two very different views to the three-decade battle over landuse along Furnace Hills Pike. Last week’s tragic end to the saga, when Groff committed suicide after a three-hour armed stand-off with police, has hazed the underlying currents of the Groff-township relationship, currents that quickly turned to rapids. When Groff filed his $18 million lawsuit against the government last year, he smiled conceitedly as he personally handed out the papers to township officials. Zoning’s elusive junkman seemed to find enjoyment in creating discomfort for those who would dare tell him what he could or could not do on his property. In a September 1998 interview at his Furnace Hills Pike home, he told the Record Express that he did not expect any of his lawsuits to be successful. He had convinced himself that his battle with various supervisor administrations was personal, and that his ongoing legal maneuvers and strategics weren’t designed to be successful. They were intended to be atjioyLig. Cleanup work at Groff s property quietly resumed this Monday, just one week after the self-proclaimed alchemist was martyred in the defense of his livelihood. In the wake of the tragedy, the contractor hired by Elizabeth Township to clear junk off Groffs property has (See Groff, Page 26) ¡B ili ■ H H - ■» H B i l h i - h i i 5 2 5 ‘St Photo by Richard Reitz Victor Capecce puts some finishing touches on a gorilla backdrop, one of many set designs he created for the upcoming show “Hollywood Live!” at the American Music Theatre in Lancaster. The sets for the show were created in his Lititz studio. ‘Hollywood’ is set, thanks to Lititz production crew RICHARD REITZ Record Express Editor LITITZ — Classic Hollywood will come to life this weekend at the American Music Theatre in a musical revue that features a dazzling set created here in Lititz. Victor Capecce, producing director for the American Music Theatre in Lancaster, constructs the massive backdrops and stage props in a portion of the warehouse behind Bomberger’s store at 555 Furnace Hills Pike. Capecce has been creating their sets since it first opened in April 1997. Since the first “Holiday Treasures” show later that year, he has been working on the sets in Lititz. He and his crew have just completed the set for one of the young theater’s most ambitious productions yet “Hollywood Live’” opens this Friday and will run through June 30, and features a cast of 2.1 singers and Map museum may close STEPHEN SEEBER dancers, 11 musicians and numerous recreations of memorable scenes, past and present, from some of Hollywood’s greatest movies. Capecce is hestitant to reveal all of the spectacular pieces that will be featured in this show. “There will be a couple of major surprises,” he promised. But he said some of the more impressive features were a mechanical trolley that will hold nine passengers, a “stage within a stage,” and a special floor for the “Singin’ in the Rain” scene that will allow for it to actually rain on the stage, and pump the water away. Even the logo that the theater is using to promote the show is a rendition of one of the large backdrops for the show. By last Friday, most of the sets had been taken to the stage, though a few pieces, such as a 24-fool by 72-foot painting of a gorilla, were receiving a few more details. (See “HollywooNil Live!”, Page 12) Boro hall project to start soon STEPHEN SEEBER__________ Record Express Staff LITITZ — Demolition work at 9 S. Broad St., making way for a new state-of-the-art borough hall and police station, could begin by the end of this month. Borough council awarded $1.47 million in contracts last week, bringing the adjusted cost estimate of expanding the local government under budget. In January, the Record Express reported that Hammel Architects of Lancaster, hired by the borough to design the project, miscalculated its cost figures by about $300,000. Apparently the additional expense of police-standard building materials like bulletproof glass were not factored into the initial judgement. A compromised valuation was made at $1,504,716 and now the project appears back on track. Council received a total of 18 bids to do the work, which will be the first major upgrade to borough hall since 1978-79. The contracts were awarded to the following four firms: Caldwell, Heckles and Egan Inc. of Lancaster will provide general contracting duties for $992,800. •R.S. Reidenbaugh Corp., located at 130 Rodney Lane in Lititz, will do the electrical work for $144,800. Greg’s Mechanical of Reading will receive $95,704 for installing the plumbing at the new facility. •Houser Construction of Lebanon will be paid $245,500 for overseeing the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning work that will need to be done. Borough manager Sue Barry said this week that work will begin with the razing of the building next to the (See Boro Hall, Page 18) Record Express Staff LITITZ — Between now and this fall, the future of the Heritage Map Museum will remain unclear. Last week, the Record Express reported that Paul Brown of Man-heim was in the process of purchasing the large industrial building at 55 N. Water St., current home of Jim Hess’ collection of centuries old maps, from Clair Brothers Audio Entertainment. Brown received evidential approval from the borough’s zoning board, its engineer, planning commission chairman and the borough council for the creation of a Lititz version of the Artworks at Doneck-ers. He plans to renovate the interior of the building for a series of retail boutiques, a small cafe and a walking garden. Brown has gotten all the local government approval that he needs to proceed and once he finances the cost of this major project it could be in place by this autumn, becoming the biggest tourist attraction addition to the borough in some time. “We’re going to bring in more buses than Lititz has ever seen,” Brown told council last week as he explained a walking tour of the borough that would incorporate Sturgis Pretzel House, 55 N. Water St. and the Wilbur Chocolate Factoty. Amid all the excitement, everyone seemed to forget about the map museum, a five-year tenant of the building and a strong member of the business and historical community, as well as an educational asset. In a statement released Tuesday, Hess had this to say about the museum’s future in Lititz: “Very simply, Mr. Brown has not presented me with any rational business occupancy plan; so, the museum would be forced to close. May, 1999 will represent the museum’s five-year anniversary. I am very grateful for the overwhelming response we’ve received from individuals from all over the world. Additionally, thousands of school children showed us their natural enjoyment of histoiy and art as dis- (See Map Museum, Page 26) Experts, go-cart neighbors sound off in track debate RICHARD REITZ Record Express Editor WARWICK TWP. — Last month, a sound engineer used mathematical extrapolation and one go-cart to explain how 20 on a proposed track would not significantly impact a nearby neighborhood. But at a March 31 hearing, another sound expert hired by opponents of Samuel High’s proposed track at High Sports Inc. north of Lititz, used an actual sound simulation to demonstrate how the impact may be more audible by those neighbors. That evening supervisors also heard stories from two men who live near go-cart tracks, and whose daily lives are impacted by the constant hum of the carts — including one who said he received a lower tax assessment on his property as a result. Attendance at this meeting dropped compared to the previous two, with about 150 in attendance — but once again, populated mostly with opponents to the track. To assess the validity of the fig- John High demonstrates one of the go-carts before a large crowd at the March hearing. ures proposed at last month’s hearing by High’s sound engineer Rick Hed-den, Warwick Township requested sound engineer P. Diane Mountain of Annapolis, Md. review his results. “I have no issues or discrepancies with the methodology or guidelines used,” Mountain said of Hedden’s report, which used the sound of one go-cart at the site and mathmatieally expanded the figures to mimic 20 cars. “I think the measurement with the actual cart is an appropriate assessment and the extrapolation of up to 20 carts is valid.” She did suggest that using Penn- DOT’s noise regulations is not an accurate way to gauge the noise that will be produced by the go-carts. “Highway noise doesn’t have much to do with the impact that this will have on local residents.” She suggested that High submit to frequent decibel testing, which he has already agreed to. Mountain also said a fence with no cracks or gaps, and at least five centimeters thick, could create a 15 decibel reduction. The closer the fence is to the track, the more effective it is, she said. During cross-examination, Mountain acknowledged that there can be a difference in sounds at the same decibel level. Eighty decibels of fingernails scratching is not the same as 80 decibels of Mozart. “It’s more than just the decibel level, it’s also the frequency of the sound,” she said. A sound that is concentrated in one frequency tends to (See Go-Cart, Page 18) ,J t ■*. . M ^(SëJêÈ J— —« -A ; / * . : ‘ ■ *£'' V r J,„4 »fl« J z ., - , ■ i t t i a '. r s W & i P i Photo by Richard Reitz On Tuesday, Marion Bowman celebrated her 106th birthday at United Zion Home, with Dorothy Burcaw and other friends and well-wishers from Lititz Moravian Church. Lifelong Lititz resident marks a century plus 6 WARWICK TWP. — Marion C. Bowman, quite possibly the oldest resident living in the Lititz area, celebrated another birthday on Tuesday. Marion celebrated her 106th birthday at a special party organized by Dorothy Burcaw, pastor at Lititz Moravian Church. The early afternoon party was attended by Marion’s friends and well-wishers from the church, and instead of birthday cake, they each enjoyed a slice of Moravian sugar cake, naturally. Marion, who still insists that she is actually two years younger than her actual age, was bom on April 6, 1893 on South Broad Street in Lititz. She has lived at United Zion Retirement Home for the past 23 years, and is its oldest resident Marion attended Linden Hall School for Girls from kindergarten through age 12. She then attended the public school until her sophomore year, finishing her schooling about a decade before the construction of the Lititz High School building (now Lititz Elementary). Marion went on to work for several years at the Lititz Shirt Factoty, and she also cleaned homes and did laundry, always remaining in the Lititz area. (See Bowman, Page 14) |
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