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123RD YEAR 28 Pages - No. 26 LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA 30 Cents
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□Holiday
INSIDE
C o l u m b u s D a y
The Columbus Day holiday
will be observed on Monday,
Oct. 11.
□ Halloween
P a r a d e s are p l a n n e d
The Rothsvllle Halloween
Parade and crowning of the
Harvest Queen will take place
on Friday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m.
The Lititz Lions Halloween
Parade is scheduled for
Monday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m.
Trick-or-Treat night for all local
mu n icip alities will be on
Friday, Oct. 29, from 6-8 p.m.
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Congregation
will be without
pastors soon
STEPHEN SEEBER
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□ School
J e s s e N i g h t h a w k
Native American musician
Jesse Nighthawk visited stu­dents
at Warwick High School
last week, performing and
educating them on his heri­tage.
Page 6.
Also in S c h o o l News:
° Warwick Band results, p. 6
° Healthy Communities, p. 6
° Local scouting awards, p. 7
□ Church
M u s i n g s
In her Church page column,
Marian Shatto explores the
celebration of World Wide
Communion and dialogue
between the Moravian and
Luth-eran congregations.
Page 16.
Also in Church News:
° Moravian Jazz Worship, p. 16
° Crop Walk in Lititz, p. 17
□ Editorial
Lititz Speaks Out
Local residents recently
received water quality reports.
So we asked some residents
if they drink Lititz water, or if
they prefer bottled water. Their
answers are on Page 4.
Also in E ditorial:
° For the Record, p. 4
° Street lights editorial, p. 4
° Your letters, p. 4
□ Sports
B i g v i c t o r y
The Warwick football team
scored a victory against rival
Manheim Township 20-9 last
Friday, led by a 133-yard rush­ing
performance by Zach
Williams. Pages 8.
Also in Sports:
° Golf team fourth in L-L, p. 8
° Field hockey still unbeaten, p. 9
° Soccer team falls short, p. 9
□ Also Inside
F i r e P r e v e n t i o n W e e k
Firefighters from Rothsville,
Lititz and Brunnerville depart­ments
visited local elementary
schools to discuss safety tips,
fire safety, and to demonstrate
their fire apparatus. Page 13.
□ Business
Record E xp re ss S ta ff
LITITZ — The folks at St. Paul
Lutheran will be running through
thistles this fall.
For the first time in 43 years, this
congregation will experience a com­plete
pastoral vacancy. Pastor Walt
Cleckley left in August to pursue
chaplain studies and Pastor Gene
Stuckey Sr. will preside over his final
service on Nov. 14.
Stuckey, who has been at the West
Orange Street church since 1983, has
accepted the call to be senior pastor
at Zion Lutheran Church in Green-castle,
which is about 40 minutes
southeast of Pittsburgh. He said that
the change allows he and his wife to
be closer to their children, who have
all grown and moved away from the
Lititz area.
“A lot of prayer and consideration
went into this decision,” he said.
“We’ll be closer to our son and
daughter-in-law, who live in the Chi­cago
area.”
Stuckey leaves Lititz as St. Paul’s
second longest-serving pastor. Pas-
(See St. Paul, Page 13)
Overcoming
grief focus
of new book
ICABI ..RADVANSKY....................
Record E xp re ss S ta ff
LITITZ— A new book by a local
woman depicts her relationship with
God after experiencing a tragedy in
her family.
Linda Neidermyer always enjoyed
writing in her journal and although
she never made the attempt, she
hoped that someday she would be a
published writer.
After her 18-year-old son David
committed suicide in 1995, Linda
expressed her grief in the pages of
her journal. Those journal entries
were the backbone of her new book,
“Treasure in the Darkness: Knowing
God through the Tragedy and Tur­moil
of Life.”
While looking through earlier
journal entries after David’s death,
Linda thought that she should
arrange and organize the entries for
herself and her children to read.
The idea of a book came about
when Neidermyer realized that she
was learning so much from reading
about losing a loved one, and through
(See Author, Page 13)
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Burglars hit
twp. homes
STEPHEN SEEBER
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Record Exp re ss S ta ff
ELIZABETH TWP. — State
police are investigating a series of
burglaries that occured near Bricker-ville
early Tuesday morning.
Little information was available
24 hours after the incident, but it was
confirmed that about a dozen homes
had been entered between midnight
and 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
Ann Cassel, who lives with her
family along Esbenshade Drive, said
that someone pried open a side door
and entered her house through the
garage while everyone was sound
asleep.
“To think that we were sleeping
and heard nothing is frightening,”
she said.
She added that the thieves appa­rently
were not interested in grabbing
household valuables since they
focused on taking money from her
purse. The Cassels and their victim­ized
neighbors are all part of the
same housing development
Trooper William Shirk, the officer
heading the investigation, reported
Tuesday afternoon that burglary
locations included Esbenshade
Drive, Gingrich Drive, 28th Division
Highway (Rt 322) and Farm-Del
Circle.
At least 12 residences were
entered, possibly more, according to
the report. In most cases, entry was
through garage doors.
Police said that once inside the
garage, the criminals involved
searched vehicles and took money.
In some cases, the houses were
entered and money, totaling about
$1,000, was taken from kitchens and
living rooms. All of the homes
involved were occupied at the time of
the incidents.
There were no suspects reported as
of Wednesday morning, but police
are asking banks or businesses that
come in contact with individuals Hy­ing
to exchange or make purchases
with large amounts of U.S. coins to
call Trooper Shirk at 299-7650 or
733-8691.
Success hinges on
community action
RICHARD REITZ
Photo by Richard Reitz
’BOARD ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON — Brian Seberof Columbi-a,
one of the top amateur skateboarders in the country, demonstrates
his dazzling technique on the pyramid to a crowd of about 75 at Jeru­salem
Lutheran Church.
Board
S k a t e b o a r d s
y o u t h g r o u p
RICHARD REITZ
Record Exp re ss Editor
ROTHSVILLE — A thrilling
display of skateboarding technique
on Sunday introduced the communi­ty
to a new youth group that wants to
cure after-school boredom.
About 75 people, young and old
alike, took advantage of a gorgeous
fall afternoon to watch a demonstra­tion
at Jerusalem Lutheran Church
on Church Street, featuring a dozen
skateboarders from More Skates in
East Petersburg.
The event was sponsored by
Rothsville Activities Program
(RAP), a program operated by a com-y
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s o a r a t f i r s t
e v e n t S u n .
mittee of church volunteers, and
open to all youth ages 8-12 living in
the community.
“We want to show youth that
church can be cool, and that church
activities can be cool,” said Mark
Hoffman, a volunteer for the
program.
RAP will offer free activities
every Wednesday evening from
6:30-8 p.m., either at the church or at
nearby Warwick Twp. Lions Park.
“We will plan whatever activities
the children want to do,” added Sue
Hoffman, Mark’s wife and another
RAP volunteer. “It will be a place for
the kids to come, play games, watch
(See Skateboarding, Page 13)
Record E xp re ss Editor
LITITZ — Initiatives to improve
downtown parking, preserve farm­land,
or effectively manage traffic
are wonderful and tangible aspects of
the Lititz-Warwick strategic plan.
But if these dreams have any hope
of becoming a reality, then the work
of a united community has only just
begun.
On Sept. 29, members of the Joint
Strategic Planning Committee and
local officials met with the public at
Warwick Middle School to present
their final plan, and to allow for publ­ic
input as it enters its last phase
before formal adoption.
“This has really been a community
process,” Chetyn Fogarty, consultant
for the plan, told the audience of
about 75 at the first of two meetings.
Total attendance was about 120.
Dave Bucher, chairman of the
Lititz Borough Planning Commis­sion,
said that this plan was the result
of a massive community effort.
“This is not a plan that a 15-person
steering committee created,” he said.
“It was hundreds of people, and thou­sands,
possibly tens of thousands, of
citizens’ hours that made it happen. It
was not created from the top down,
but rather from the bottom up.”
“Strategic planning will not hap­pen
unless you have an action plan,”
she said. “The question now is,
who’s going to be the first person to
get the ball rolling, and who is going
to keep the ball roiling.”
Fogarty highlighted the events of
the past 18 months that led to the
completion of this plan, and cited the
recent mutual aid agreement between
Lititz and Warwick police as “a
seamless policing strategy,” and an
example of how unified communities
can work together.
She broke down the four initia­tives
in the plan — Community Ser­vices
and Facilities, Physical Deve­lopment,
Infrastructure, and Eco­nomic
Development — and
explained how committees can be
established to form the action plans
that will result in implementation of
these concepts as policy or programs
over the next several years. “We have
to be vigilant” to make it work, she
said.
Three new committees would be
established in the community as part
of the implementation process:
(See Planning, Page 13) Lots of ju icy apples and few bees
$50 pies and Craig
Wagaman’s 6th pie
eating title make
for a great day
RICHARD REITZ
AND STEPHEN SEEBER
□ Out of the Past
O w l H ill e x p a n d s
This summer, renovations
at the Owl Hill Learning
Center enabled the child care
facility to expand its services
to now include infant and tod­dler
care. Page 18.
Record E xp re ss S ta ff
UlTTZ — Delightful variations
on a beloved apple theme provided
R e l i v e L i t i t z h i s t o r y the core for success at Linden Hall
On this date in history, Lititz last Sunday,
experienced an early October The local historical foundation is
snowstorm, a visit from a reporting its 10th annual Lititz Apple
Mesopotamian sheik, and the Festival as one of the best,
return of a World War I hero. Highlights that helped draw hun-
Pages 22-23. dreds of families to this harvest event
include:
•Craig Wagaman’s amazing abili­ty
to inhale a cream-topped pie in
Births......................................14 record time for the sixth time, but
Business...............................18-19 mere crumbs ahead of the 1997
Church...................................16-17 champion;
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Ob itu arie s................................¿-3 for g os’ award-winning gour-
Out of the Past............. 22-23 met pie, which ultimately netted $50
Police Log................................ 21 at auction;
School News........................ 6-7 -Hay riders by the wagon load who
Social..................................... 14-15 enjoyed tours of the Linden Hall
Sports................................... 8-11 campus;
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SINK YOUR TEETH INTO THIS — Kids had a chance to bob for an apple dangling from a tree at the Lititz
Apple Fest, and 9-year-old Jenna Benjamin soon found out how frustrating it can be to try and bite into a deli­cious
apple using only your teeth and ingenuity. Jenna, who was at the event with her mom, Jan Benjamin,
swirled around the spinning fruit, and carefully slowed it down in front of her mouth, balancing it before finally
sinking her teeth into the apple... several minutes after she started her quest. After that effort, she said the
apple tasted even sweeter.
■Clannamore performing Irish-inspired
folk music at two shows dur­ing
die afternoon;
•The 320 pieces of apple-flavored
stick candy that Johnny Appleseed
handed out during the afternoon;
•And the delectable apple dum­plings
that always seem to sell out
faster than folks can stuff them down.
Receipts were still being tallied as
of Wednesday, but initial estimates
indicate that the festival helped raise
at least $3,000 for the historical
foundation — not bad for an event
that is primarily intended to b ea gift
to the community. When both family
fun and fundraising can be accom­plished
simultaneously, everyone
benefits.
“I’d say we had a great day, and I
hope that everyone who was there
had a great day.” said Kim Kane,
who did much of the organizing for
this year’s festival. She said success
on Oct 3 was a combination of class­ic
Indian summer weather and gener­ous
volunteers.
Some of the groups that put time
and money into this year’s festival
include the Lititz Women of Today,
the Lititz Women’s Club, Lititz Area
Jaycees, local Girl Scout cadets, Boy
Scouts, Wayne Siegrist, the Lititz
1 ;. ’• ral Foundation, Linden Hall
. ■! ;,'-s of individual volunteers.
Winning Bakers
ir : Bos was the first place win-
■ . ihe gourmet division. During
•• ,.[ tion, his pie earned a whop­ping
$J0 bid. Greta Weiler finished
in second place but her pie still drew
$32.50, certainly first-place-worthy
price.
In the traditional apple pie divi­sion,
Jean Kreider took top honors
with her pie, which collected a $25
bid at the auction. Jeanette Oberholt-zer
placed second, and her pie was
sold for $15.
Tyler Gamer who won top honors
in 1997, returned to the winner’s
circle this year with his apple pie,
which collected $25 at the auction.
Sydney Shenk finished in second
(See Apple Fest, Page 13)