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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 22 PAGES—No. 9
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Surrounded by some of his best pals, Matthew
Tieman’s smile tells us that having a "Big Brother”
is one of the most fun things in the world. Mat has
been Sam Heffner’s “ Little Brother” for a year and
a half, during which time Sam, Mat, and the three
canine members of the family have become fast
friends.
Area Man Shares Time and Fun
With Very Special “ Little Brother”
By; Bonnie Szymanski.;
About a year and a half
ago, Sam Heffner, who lives
on Dridge Hill Road in
Elizabeth To wnship, heard a
radio advertisement ap­pealing
for men between the
ages of 18 and 99 to ask
themselves this question:
“Do you have a few hours a
week to share vVith a
fatherless boy?”
Sam thought about that
question. He thought about
his own two boys, Tony, 21,
and David, 13. It didn’t take
him long to come up with the
answer. Soon he was talking
with Hans Wirsching,
executive director of
Lancaster County’s Big
Brothers of America
program.
One” of more than three
I i i T h is Is su e
Business Directory 18
Church News 16
Classified Ads 19,20,21
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Women’s 10,11
hundred Big Brother
agencies across the United
States, the Lancaster County
Big Brothers have matched
about 180 pairs of big and
little brothers, but, said
Heffner, there are still about
80 boys on the waiting list.
These boys want and need
male companionship, he
explained, and noted that a
man who opts to share a part
of his life with a “Little
Brother” need not be con­cerned
that he can only
devote one evening a week to
the boy. It is the quality of
the time, not the quantity
that is important, he
stressed.
Heffner conferred with his
younger son on the matter of
a Little Brother, and David,
although too young to be an
official “ Big Brother”
decided that a Little Brother
between the ages of eight
and 10 would be ideal.
Given a choice of four, all
matched with Heffner ac­cording
to interests, locale,
and other considerations, he
and David decided on Mat
because he fit their age
preferences and because he
had been on the waiting list
for 13 months.
“He was really excited to
see me the first time I went
to pick him up, ” Heffner
recalled. He took me in the
house and showed me a robot
he had made,” he continued,
at which point Mat looked up
and said, “I don’t remember
that.”
“Well, you did,” laughed
Heffner and explained that
Mat “seemed to be up on the
Big Brother program” and
didn’t need much orien­tation:
after all, he had been
waiting for 13 months,
months.
Heffner commented that
it’s often up to the mother to
initiate the desire and en­thusiasm
for the program.
She also is the one usually
responsible for making sure
the “Little Brother” is ready
when Big Brother comes to
pick him up.
It didn’t take Mat long to
become like one of the
family, said Heffner. An
outgoing child, Mat looks
forward to his weekly outing
Poplar
For Twp
Grove Petition Asks
Road Maintenance
By Laurie Knowles
A petition signed by more
than 190 residents of Poplar
Grove was presented to the
E liz a b e th T ow n sh ip
supervisors at the meeting
held Monday, Oct. 4.
The petition asked that the
village’s roads be taken over
by the township to be
“opened, widened, graded,
and straightened” , and
eventually paved, and the
petition was presented by
Mrs. Ruth Stohler, wife of
Carl A. Stohler, township
supervisor.
The petition was read by
Joseph Heath, a Poplar
Grove resident, who later
explained that as a new
resident of Poplar Grove, he
had not been aware that the
roads were maintained by
property owners.
The petition asked that the
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The monthly meeting
of the Lititz Retailer’s
Association has been
scheduled for the second
Wednesday of this
month. The October
meeting will be held
next Wednesday, Oct. 13
at 7:30 P.M. at the
General Sutter Inn.
All area businessmen
are welcome and invited
to attend. » • • • • • • • •
supervisors make a decision
within 60 days, and said that
the residents intended to
“pursue the matter” as they
were authorized to do ac­cording
to the township code.
The residents requested
that a total of 5,680 feet of
roads be at least graded.
These roads included parts
of Lancaster Ave., California
Ave., Laurel Ave.,
Washington Ave., and
Pennsylvania Ave.
George White, chairman of
the supervisors, said that he
was not able to answer any
question on the matter until
the legal aspects had been
studied by the township
solicitor, William Crosswell,
who was not able to attend
the meeting.
“There’s no one here who
wants roads for Poplar
Grove more than I do,’’said
White, “But this must be
legal.”
Luther Ober, of the
supervisors, said that Miss
Hilda White, who inherited
the I.C. White Estate, which
owns the roads, would have
to dedicate the land to the
township.
Stohler pointed out that
Miss White had signed the
petition and had told him
that she would be willing to
turn the roads over to the
township.
“What I want to know, is
what do we do when we need
an ambulance back there?”
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with Heffner and his son.
They take advantage of most
warm days by going fishing,
hiking, or turtle catching
around Speedwell Forge
Lake.
One evening a week on his
way home from work,
Heffner stops in Neffsville
where Mat lives, picks him
up, and brings him back to
Dridge Hill Road.
After dinner, the two of
them, usually accompanied
by “Junior” Big Brother
David (a term originating
with the Heffners), go
tramping around the
countryside, play football, or
indulge in one of Mat’s
favorite pastimes, working
in the yard.
In less agreeable weather,
they play games indoors or
work on projects such as
carving wooden racing cars
to enter in the Pinewood
Derby, an annual model car
race for Lancaster County
Cub Scouts. David has won
two Pinewood Derby
trophies, and Mat is not far
behind with a second place in
the most colorful car
division.
Taking trips together is
often an important part of
the Big-Little Brother
relationship.
Heffner has taken Mat to
Washington, D.C.; they went
to a football game in
Baltimore last year where,
according to Mat, “we saw
the Baltimore Orioles beat
the Texas Rangers:” and
this weekend the pair will be
traveling to Lake Wallen-
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Penn and Elizabeth Township
Residents Fight to Prevent
Proposed “ Model Landfill”
By Laurie Knowles
Robert A. Smith, a Lan­caster
realtor and appraiser,
told persons attending the
joint zoning hearing of Penn
and Elizabeth Townships,
that the reason the landfill
was being protested was
because of the fear of the
people, based on what they
had seen happen with other
landfill sites.
R.E. Wright Associates of
Harrisburg is seeking a
. special exception to town­ship
zoning in order to build
a “model landfill’ site on a
90-acre tract of land on
Penryn Road that lies in both
Penn and Elizabeth
Townships.
R e s i d e n t s b e g a n
protesting the landfill
proposal as soon as they
became aware of Wright’s
plans, and in the second part
of the hearing, which was
held Sept. 29 at the Old
Penryn Fire Hall, more than
125 concerned residents
attended to hear testimony.
J. Marlin Shreiner, at­torney
for the residents of
the two townships, called
Smith as a witness, and
asked Smith if he had ob­served
the site of the
proposed landfill. Smith said
that he had.
“There is no question that
properties on the fringe of
the landfill will be
devaluated,” said Smith,
“The best uses for that land
would be residential or
agricultural.”
The lawyer for Wright,
Herbert A. Shaffner,
Harrisburg, said that all of
Smith’s statements were
“speculative”, because no
landfill exists at the site yet.
Smith admitted that his
s t a t e m e n t s w e r e
“speculative,” but he ex­plained
that the residenls
were concerned about the
landfill because of a long
history of landfill sites,
beginning with ash dumps.
“The burden Of proof is on
you,” said Smith, directing
his statement to Wright and
his council.
The hearing began with
questioning of Wright and
Ned Welder, an employee of
R.E. Wright, Inc., by the
members of the township
zoning hearing boards.
Dale Diehm of Elizabeth
Township began the
questioning by asking
Wright what the height of the
grade would be. Wright said
that the Pa. Department of
Environmental Resources
regulates the size of the
slope.
Diehm also asked Wright
to explain the procedure for
determining at what point
the first landfill site would be
completed and the second
si' started Wright said that
tl first site would be
t pleted m about five, six,
even years.
John Gerstemeier, of Penn
lownship. asked about the
controls the company would
maintain to assure residents
that their wells would not be
polluted. Wright explained
that DER required that wells
be checked before the land­fill
site was started, and that
the company planned to
build monitoring wells on the
landfill site to test the water.
G e r s t em e i e r a ls o
questioned Wright as to
whether polluted water, or
“leachate” , could seep
through their controls.
Wright answered by saying
that “we would have to be
absolutely divine to state
that it would be impossible in
our natural situation” for
water to seep through the
trench.
Penn Township zoning
board member, Gerald
Quinn, further questioned
the company’s pollution
prevention plan. He asked
Wright what pollutants
would be in the leachate, and
Wright referred his
questions to Ned Wehler,
geologist and engineer for
the Wright company.
“This is a proven, solid
method, and all pollutants
will be considerably lower
than danger levels,” ex­plained
Wehler in summary
of his testimony.
The case of the protestants
began with attorney J.
Marlin Shreiner’s statement
that a special exception
under the law as not sup-
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Lexington Still Awaits Decision
On Controversial Rifle Range By Bonnie Szymanski
Elizabeth Township’s
zoning decision on the high-powered
rifle range lately
proposed by the Lexington
Rod and Gun Club is still
hanging in the balance.
Zoners have until October 23
to hand down their collective
decision that will allow or
forbid the construction of a
100-yard rifle range on the
rural portion of gun club
property located on the the
north side of Snavely Mill
Road 300 feet east of
Firestone Road in the village
of Lexington.
M e a n w h i l e , b o th
proponents and opponents of
the range are verbally
battling it out, each side
insisting on the legitimacy of
its claims.
This week, point by point,
opponents hammered away
at assurances made by
members of the gun club that
the new range would be not
only safe, but an asset to the
community.
Club members have made
it clear that the 18-foot
backstop included in the plot
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National School Lunch Week
School Kids to Eat Hotdogs,
Vegetable Soup on Wednesday
School kids will be
eating vegetable soup
and hotdogs next
Wednesday in honor of
National School Lunch
Week Oct. 10-16.
Wednesday will be
Universal Menu Day,
when 25 million
students, including
Warwick students, will
be eating the same “All
American” lunch - a
hotdog on a bun,
vegetable beef soup,
orange wedges, tutti-frutti
crisp (with
peaches) and milk.
This year marks the
30th birthday of the
National School Lunch
program, which came
about shortly after
World War II when
Congress passed the
National School Lunch
Act, with the goal of
safeguarding the well­being
of children and
encouraging the use of
nutritious foods.
Thousands of schools
are now participating in
the School Lunch
Program. The federal
program has set explicit
requirements for the
quality of the meal
served under its
authority. Its Type A
lunch includes, at a
minimum, one-half pint
of whole fluid milk, 2
ounces of meat or othe^
protein food, % cup of 2
or more fruits or
vegetables and 1 ser­ving
of enriched or
whole grain cereal.
Such a lunch is geared
to meet one-third or
more of the nutrient
old child, with ad­justments
made in
serving sizes for both
older and younger
children.
The United States
D e p a r tm e n t o f
Agriculture has sup­ported
the program by
providing subsidies.
These have taken the
form of surplus
ag r icu ltu ra l com­modities
or food pur­chased
as part of the
price support programs,
technical advice, and
cash subsidies. The
School Lunch Act
requires that each
participating school
operate on a non-profit
basis, and provide
meals free or at reduced
prices to those unable to
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,®e« ÍL year • any noise from shot guns
plan for the rifle range would
make the possibility of
anyone’s missing such a
huge target almost nil. They
added that if by some remote
chance someone did miss the
backstop, there are 250 yards
of heavy timber through
which the bullet would have
to travel and emphasized the
improbability of its passing
through without being
stopped by a tree.
On the other hand, op­ponents
contend that the
woods is neither heavy nor
thick, that it is a logged area
containing only thin trees
and very little underbrush.
“If you can see right
through it, a bullet can go
through,” insists Carol
Wardell. The Wardell
property adjoins gun club
property.
Janice Graybill is another
neighbor opposed to the new
range by virtue of the fact
that, according to the plot
plan submitted to the zoning
hearing board, the angle of
trajectory shows that a
bullet missing the backstop
could travel approximately
160 yards through the woods,
then cross a corner of the
Graybill property before it
headed back into a wooded
area.
The Graybills, who have
been Snavely Mill Road
residents for only a few
months, said they purchased
the property with the in­tention
of creating a horse
path around their meadow.
If the rifle range is ap­proved,
they contend, they
will be forced to abandon
those plans and, in fact, will
be unable to use the lower
portion of their property
altogether.
The Graybills, along with
other nearby residents,
claim the new rifle range
would have the ultimate
effect of devaluing their
property considerably.
Another sparring point is
the issue of excessive noise
caused by rifles. Club
members note that residents
have lived for years with the
noise of shot guns from dub
grounds and have not
minded it in the past. Nearby
neighbors say the noise from
a rifle range will far exceed
In reply to the WardeUs’
contention that they have
seen their horses running
back and forth in fright from
the noise of guns, Jay
Foreman, president of the
gun club, said he watched
those same horses recently
during a block shoot and
observed no apparent show
of nervousness.
Foreman has explained
that the club took great pains
to see that this new rifle
range has been designed and
will be constructed ac­cording
to National Rifle
Association standards of
safety. This includes
provisions for a ricochet
board and protective wings
or baffles alohg the sides of
the 18-foot backstop.
But opponents have
claimed that though the NRA
standards have allegedly
been met as far as design, it
is their opinion that the NRA
would never approve of the
range’s proposed location 25
feet from a residential
property, 500 to 600 feet from
a house, _and “on top of a
hill.”
Neighbors have also ex­pressed
concern over
possible ricocheting bullets
despite club members’
assurance that a ricochet
board has been provided for.
Testifying at the Sept. 9
zoning hearing, Ron Wardell
stated that four years ago
when he was building his
home, he discovered the
ground in the area to be full
of shale and very rocky.
Because of this, he said,
there is a very real
possibility that a bullet could
ricochet off of a rock.
Members of the Lexington
Rod and Gun Club have
approached the zoning board
with their proposal for a new
range in a community
minded spirit, they have
declared. They said that
because they realize the
present 80-yard range is
insufficient for the sighting-in
of rifles and because they
realize that club members
are using it at times for those
purposes they have
presented their case as a
move toward a safer and
more acceptable range in
which to shoot rifles.
Many residents who
disagree with this argument
say it’s a matter of “two
wrongs not making a right.”
They agree that the present
range is not the place to be
shooting high-powered rifles,
but they also claim the new
range will be jeopardizing
people’s lives and properties
by its proximity to a
residential area and by the
fact that, theoretically,
bullets from riñes shot on the
new range could land as far
away as Halfville or as close
as a neighboring property.
Whatever the outcome,
those involved have only two
weeks or less to wait before
the Elizabeth Township
Zoning Hearing Board must
make its decision on whether
or not the new rifle range
will be approved for the
Lexington Rod and Gun
Club.
Fire Cd.
Friday and Saturday
The public is invited to
participate in an open house
at the lititz Fire Company
from 7 to 9 p.in. on Friday,
Oct. 8, and from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 9, in
honor of Fire Prevention
Week, Oct. 3-9.
Special activities during
both days will include a slide
presentation on home fire
safety entitled, “Startling
But True.” If interest
warrants, the presentation
will be shown on the hour
both days.
Various types of fire
equipment will be on display,
and fire company members
will be on hand to provide
commentary on the use of
the equipment.
Refreshments will be
served throughout both days.
Fire company members
have urged the public to
consider visiting the borough
fire station during these two
days to view the slide
presentation and become
familiar with procedures
that could someday save
their lives.