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THE RESS SERVING THE WARWICK AREA FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY 101st Year ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1877, AS THE SUNBEAM I CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LITITZ RECORD, 1937 Lititz, Lancaster County, PA. 17543, Thursday, August 18,1977 15 CENTS A COPY; $5.00 PER YEAR BY MAIL WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 18 Pages - N o . 2 1 $220,000 Deficit Uncovered In School Budget By Peggy Frailey A cash deficit that is expected to amount to $220,000 by next summer has been uncovered in the school district budget. An audit of the 1977-78 budget that was approved June 30 by Warwick School Board showed that money was not actually included in the budget to cover teachers salaries for July and August of 1978, and that other projected expenditures had been underbudgeted. These include an approximate $20,000 shortage for teachers salaries (the cost of two teachers added to the staff), a $5,000 shortage of the district’s share of workm en ’ s com p en sa tion premiums (which the district was told last February would go up), a $1100 shortage for summer curriculum writing, a $2400 shortage for elementary testing and guidance materials, and some small errors in other areas, including contributions to employees’ social security funds. An error in the district’s favor, the failure to include $204,582 in the state revenues due to the district for 1976-77, will help offset the underbudgeted areas, but the total projected deficit at the end of this fiscal year is estimated at approximately $220,000, and not the estimated $195,826 on which the 10 mill property tax incease was based last spring. Errors Verified The errors were verified by the local accounting firm of Miller and Miller, called in by the new superintendent of schools, Dr. John Bonfield, when he began implementing the budget and realized that $306,000 supposedly set aside in the budget for accrued teachers salaries (to cover July and August 1978) were not included, but actually had been subtracted from the projected deficit. In the course of the audit, Dr. Bonfield and the accountants uncovered the numerous other reported errors in the budget. The school district will be able to borrow money to cover its expenses at the end of the year, Dr. Bonfield said. “It’s not a panic situation. We have a beam on it, we can control it,” he said. Educational Programs Educational programs will not be affected in any costsaving measures, he stressed. “Our big consideration will be how can we continue to provide a quality education in a more efficient manner?” he said. He said the School Board, the administration, and the staff has been called on to work to increase the amount of funds available at the end of the fiscal year, to keep the amount that has to be borrowed as low as possible. “ This will require the cooperation and efforts of everyone,” he said. He said the most serious error in the budget was the apparent misunderstanding by the Board and the former superintendent, Dr. H. Dale Winger, about the accrual system, used to pay teachers salaries during the summer. He said he had discussed the budget and the reoorted errors with Dr. Winger and the former business manager, Robert Boltz, who resigned last March, and neighter were able to shed much light on the thinking process that resulted in the errors. Asked if he thought a business manager could have caught the errors, he said yes. Not Pointing Finger However, he said, “I’m not pointing the finger at anyone. Dr. Winger was in a difficult position working without a business manager. And under the budget procedure used, the Board saw so many changes in figures that it was hard to stay on top of them all.” He explained that school boards generally rely on the superintendent and business manager to come up with figures, and then based on these figures, make the decision whether to raise taxes or make cuts. He said it is hard for the average school board member to stay on top of all the changing figures in working budgets, unless he or she is used to working in depth with budgets. Accured Salaries School Board president Bill Owens told the Record that the “lion’s share of the mistake” was in the accrued salaries. He said the Board had been assured by Dr. Winger that the 1977-78 salaries were there, scattered through the budget under instruction, pupil personnel, and health. “I think Dr. Winger really believed they were there,” Owens said. “I don’t think there was any deliberate misleading on his part.” He said that everyone involved with the budget procedure must shoulder some of the responsiblility for the errors. t Board “Goofed” “We’re going to lay it on the line,” he said. “We goofed and we admit it.” “I don’t see how anybody can duck this other than live up to the responsiblity of what happened. We approved it (the budget) and in that sense it was our mistake as much as anyone’s.” “We had lousy projections and lousy estimates,” he said. However, when asked if he felt the budget procedure used had contributed to the errors he said eludes a provision allowing budgets to be reopened, Owens said he would not. Must Correct Mistake “The mistake has been made and we should sit back and do everything we can to correct it. We should not load it on the taxpayer.” “I think the whole district should sweat it,” he said. no. 5««-“The most important thing There was nevpr a time now is that we nip what we when the BoardA saw the the bottom line,” he said. “The budget would still have been put together in error if it had been done by committees (as it was done in the past) because no committee would have checked all the figures. It really goes down to looking at the total salary figures and saying this is it.” “I should have checked the figures,” he said. Asked how the projected state subsidies due to the district could have been so far off, Owens said he did not know. Asked if he would approve reopening the budget if the state legislature approves higher subsidies and in-can in the bud.’ “I don’t think we’ll ever come up with enough money to balance the budget,” he said. “I think we’ll end up with a lousy cash balance and end up borrowing.” The district will be in exactly the same situation it’s in now, he said. “We’ve already borrowed $90,000, maybe more, and we’re going to have to borrow the the next payroll.” “Dr. Bonfield is reviewing every requisition in the school district to see where we can cut down,” he said. “We’re going to rout through every item in the budget and cut where we can without hurting the educational program.” He said it will all be fun-neled through the Finance and Legal Committee. Business Manager Asked what the Board would decide to do about hiring a business manager, in light of the budget problems, Owens said the Board is waiting for a decision from Dr. Bonfield on whether the district can function better or not with a business manager. “I don’t think an inexperienced business manager would have caught this thing,” Owens said. He said he “leans toward” letting the present clerical staff handle the business department, supervised by an experienced member of the administration. “ The job needs someone familiar with school finances,” he said. Dr. Bonfield outlined the following actions that the district has already taken to help remedy the problem: Actions Being taken 1. The administration is [Continued on Page 3] Township Residents To File Appeal on Landfill Decision Penn and Elizabeth Township residents will file an official appeal with Commonwealth Court in Harrisburg Monday, seeking a reversal of Lancaster County Court’s ruling that the townships must accept a sanitary landfill that a Harrisburg geological firm wants to install along Penryn Road. Meanwhile, residents have scheduled a public meeting Tuesday, Aug. 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the Old Penryn Fire Hall, Newport Road, to bring citizens up to date on the status of the landfill problem. Scott Shank, Penry, will conduct the meeting, and a panel of residents will also be on hand for a question and answer session. The meeting is open to all interested persons. Residents have already collected nearly $4,000 in contributions toward court action, according to James Bachman, whose name will appear on the appeal as one of the intervenors. “We’ve had a good response,” Bachman said, referring to the cititzens’ fund raising. “Money is not a major problem.” Bachman said the group of citizens are now working on getting public support behind them. “We’re going all the way on this,” Bachman said. If their efforts fail at the Commonwealth Court level, they will carry their appeal to the state Surpeme Court, he said. Last November, both Penn and Elizabeth Township zoning hearing boards denied a special exception sought by R.E. Wright Associates, Harrisburg, to establish and operate a sanitary lanfill on a tract of land that lies in a rural district, partly in Penn and partly in Elizqbeth Township. Wright appealed the decisions to Lancaster County Court of Common Appeals and in July, Judge Paul A. Mueller, Jr. ruled that Wright could establish the landfill. Judge Mueller stated that the zoning hearing boards had committed an “abuse of discretion” in making several unsupported conclusions of law. Citizens had opposed the landfill for numerous reasons, including possible well and stream pollution, dust and odor, heavy truck traffic on township roads, devaluation of nearby properties, and misuse of farmland. $ THIS WEEK’S $25 JACKPOT WINNER. . . MRS. ANNA H. BAER 218 Owl Hill Rd., Lititz NOTE-Mrs. Baer or a member of her family must claim the $25 by 5 P.M. tomorrow (Friday, Aug. 19) at the LITITZ RECORD EXPRESS, 22 E. Main St. If prize is not claimed by specified time, $25 will be added to next week’s jackpot. These Persons Are Eligible for the “GRAND PRIZE” Of Gift Certificates To Be Awarded October 1st.: • Mrs. Jane Smith, 449 S. Broad St. > G. Blankenmyer, 379 E. Main St. • Jerry Shaeffer, 302 Fairview Drive • Donna Maser, 919 May Road « Raymond E. Weaver, 1431 Brunnerville Rd. > K. Geib, 605 W. Orange St. • Ruth Wagaman, 940 Rothsville Road • Kay Rihn, 128 E. Lincoln Ave. • Shirley Shenk, 656 Owl Hill Rd. • Jane Neal, 423 S. Cedar St. Complete Rules of the “Shop Lititz First" $25 Weekly Jackpot Can Be Found On Page 2. " Record Seeking Material : For 100th Anniversary Issue ; , Much of the history of Lititz and its surrounding ' ' townships is recorded in old photographs, newspaper ¡f clippings, articles, and club and church notes saved by y , residents of the area. * The Lititz Record Express is planning to publish a special edition in October to mark its 100th an- „ niversary, and is looking for any contributions local residents, or former residents may have in the way of old pictures, histories, old issues of local newspapers with headlines of significant world or national events, , etc. The paper is particularly interested in histories ' ' depicting the growth of local churches, clubs, fire and ambulance associations, industries, and businesses. All contributions will be returned to the owner upon request. They should be mailed or delivered as soon as possible to the Editor, Record Express, 22 E. Main St., Lititz, Pa. 17543, with the name of the owner attached. - The Record cannot guarantee that all items submitted > will be used, and reserves the right to select material ' ,,, to be used according to general interest and available ...„ ssi space. fjs Appeal Considered For Rothsville Doys Home Following the July 20 decision by Warwick Township zoning hearing board denying the special exception request by Pine Aires, Inc., a Manheim-b a s e d n o n - p r o f i t organization, to open a boys home in Rothsville, members of the organization may consider appealing the ruling. Though a final decision on whether or not to appeal has not been made, John Gibble, Lititz attorney and spokesman for the group reported that members will be meeting within the next few days to discuss the matter. The zoning hearing board’s denial was made on the grounds that the group home was not specifically designated as one of the special exceptions allowable under zoning regulations. Pine Aires had requested the exception, hoping to fall under the catagory of clustered living, detailed in the Warwick Township zoning ordinance as hospitals, nursing homes and clinics. The Pine Aires request had been protested by a large group of Rothsville residents when it was first presented to the board on July 15. Fearing increased vandalism and a resulting loss of property value, more than 50 concerned residents spent over three hours trying to convince the board that approval for a boys home in Rothsville would be detrimental to the neighborhood. Pine Aires spokesmen explained that the home was being planned for boys between the ages of 12 and 15 who could not be classified as “hard-core” delinquents, but who needed the guidance and security a group home could offer. Pine Aires has two more days in which to decide to take their request further via an appeal. F a m i l i a r F a c e s In this issue 1 Business Directory 14 Look for Familiar 1 Church News 12 Faces on page two. I Classified Ads 16,17 Wilbur Landis is this 1 Editorial Page 4 week’s featured per- 1 Sports Section 6,7,8 sonality. 1 Social 10 Boro Gets $6.8 Million Sewer Grant By Peggy Frailey Lititz has finally received the promised $6,852,750 federal grant for a new larger sewer treatment plant, which is expected to be started next spring and go into operation within 18 months to two years later. The grant has been in the works for the past several years, and announcement that it was awarded was received last week by the borough. It will constitute approximately 75 percent of the cost of the new plant, estimated at $9,900,000, according to Howard Red-cay, secretary of the Lititz Sewer Authority. The remainder of the cost probably will be raised through bond issues, he said. Lititz borough will have to raise $2 million and Warwick Township, $1 million, for their share of use. Warwick Township has already received a federal grant to design its own collection system to tie in with the Lititz plant. According to Lititz boro manager, David Anderson, residential sewer rates will go up somewhat when the new plant is in operation, but new rates still have to be worked out. He said rates will probably fluctuate for several years. More Employees He said that the borough expects to have to hire at least seven more employees to work with the three employees at the present treatment plant. A personnel study has not been made yet, Anderson said, and the borough is waiting for the Environmental Protection Agency to decide whether or not the new plant will have to have full work crews on all shifts. At present, full crews are on some shifts, but other shifts are covered partly by on-call employees. The new plant will be located adjacent to the present plant on Lititz Run Road. The borough now owns two acres next to the plant, but expects to purchase about 5% more acres for the expansion. According to Redcay, the tentative schedule for the new plant is: Nov. 15- advertise for bids for construction: Jan. 11, 1978- receive bids; April, 1978- closing of bond issue (after bids are in and the Authority knows how much money will be needed); Spring, 1978- start construction. At its Aug. 25 meeting, the Sewer Authority will of/ ficially accept the grant, Redcay s a id. The Authority Hillside behind Lititz’ present sewer treatment plant is part of the area that will be used for a new $9.9 million treatment plant, to be started ' r*-/- in the spring. Lititz has received a $6,852,750 federal grant to cover 75 percent of the cost of the new plant. will also have to start discussing loans for construction, since the federal grant comes in the form of periodic reimbursements for money paid to contractors. Redcay said that the Authority has already borrowed $25,000 from Farmers First Bank for some major repairs to the present sewer plant, and that the Authority does not have a big surplus of money now. Year 2000 The new plant, designed to handle flow from the borough and parts of Warwick Township up to the year 2000, is an expansion from the present 1.17 mgd. (million gallons a day) to 3.5 mgd. It was ordered by EPA to improve the quality of effluent going into Lititz Run. It includes parts of Warwick Township where malfunctioning septic tanks are endangering water purity, according to EPA. In the new plant, 43 percent of the designed flow is reserved for industries, the biggest users being Travis Mills, which has reserved capacity for 600,000 gallons a day, and Cellu Products, at 350,000 gallons a day. It is designed for an ultimate population of 20,000 people in the borough and Warwick Township (two million gallons a day residential flow) and an industrial flow capacity of 1.5 mgd by the year 2000. Plant Overloaded By comparison, the present plant, now overloaded, is serving an initial population of 14,500 persons and receives a flow of 950,000 gallons a day from industry. It will be a tertiary (three-stage) plant, as compared with the present secondary plant the borough now has, and will be designed to convert sewage into water that is 95 percent pure. This will flow into Lititz Run. The big difference between a three-stage and a two-stage plant is that the former removes nitrates and phosphorus from the effluent, Anderson said. The new plant has been over seven years in the planning, and the present plans are the third set drawn up by the engineers hired by the borough, Betz Environmental Engineers (formerly Albright and Friel). The first plans were for a 2.4 mgd plant, the second for a 3.1 mgd plant, and the third, accepted plans for a 3.5 mgd plant. According to Redcay, the borough has already spent $241,689 on land, e n g i n e e r i n g , an d miscellaneous related to these plans, $231,000 of this for engineering alone. He said that any parts of the plans not used in the new plant will not be reimbursed by the government. Heritage Choir To Perform At Park Community Park Services will be held at 6:45 p.m. on Sunday, August 21, with music by the Heritage Choir, and First Church of God in charge of the devotional program and the Word. The service will be held in Lititz Springs Park and in case of rain, services will be held in St. Paul Lutheran Church. Bells will sound in Lititz in the event that the service will be held indoors. Pastor Paul Kocher of First Chuch of God will present the devotions and the Word, and the Heritage Choir will be directed by Julia Keehn and Virginia Burkey. Accompanists will be Donna Burkholder, organ, and Jean Longenecker, piano. Music will include “ Praise, Thanksgiving, Glory, Honor” , “Hymn to the Trinity”, “Recessional,’ by Reginald De Koven, “Holy Art Thou” , and “Hallelujah Chorus” from “ Mount of Olives” by Beethoven, all performed by the full choir. The Men’s Ensemble will sing “ Enternal Father, Strong to Save” (Navy Hymn), “Onward Christian Soldiers”, and “Holy, Holy, Holy”. Other selections from the full choir will be “America, Our Dream”, “The Nation’s P rayer” , “Honor and Glory” , Hymn of Brotherhood”, “Let There Be Peace on Earth”, and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”. All persons are invited to join in the community-wide service and to enjoy the now-traditional Heritage Choir.
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Full Text | THE RESS SERVING THE WARWICK AREA FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY 101st Year ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1877, AS THE SUNBEAM I CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LITITZ RECORD, 1937 Lititz, Lancaster County, PA. 17543, Thursday, August 18,1977 15 CENTS A COPY; $5.00 PER YEAR BY MAIL WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 18 Pages - N o . 2 1 $220,000 Deficit Uncovered In School Budget By Peggy Frailey A cash deficit that is expected to amount to $220,000 by next summer has been uncovered in the school district budget. An audit of the 1977-78 budget that was approved June 30 by Warwick School Board showed that money was not actually included in the budget to cover teachers salaries for July and August of 1978, and that other projected expenditures had been underbudgeted. These include an approximate $20,000 shortage for teachers salaries (the cost of two teachers added to the staff), a $5,000 shortage of the district’s share of workm en ’ s com p en sa tion premiums (which the district was told last February would go up), a $1100 shortage for summer curriculum writing, a $2400 shortage for elementary testing and guidance materials, and some small errors in other areas, including contributions to employees’ social security funds. An error in the district’s favor, the failure to include $204,582 in the state revenues due to the district for 1976-77, will help offset the underbudgeted areas, but the total projected deficit at the end of this fiscal year is estimated at approximately $220,000, and not the estimated $195,826 on which the 10 mill property tax incease was based last spring. Errors Verified The errors were verified by the local accounting firm of Miller and Miller, called in by the new superintendent of schools, Dr. John Bonfield, when he began implementing the budget and realized that $306,000 supposedly set aside in the budget for accrued teachers salaries (to cover July and August 1978) were not included, but actually had been subtracted from the projected deficit. In the course of the audit, Dr. Bonfield and the accountants uncovered the numerous other reported errors in the budget. The school district will be able to borrow money to cover its expenses at the end of the year, Dr. Bonfield said. “It’s not a panic situation. We have a beam on it, we can control it,” he said. Educational Programs Educational programs will not be affected in any costsaving measures, he stressed. “Our big consideration will be how can we continue to provide a quality education in a more efficient manner?” he said. He said the School Board, the administration, and the staff has been called on to work to increase the amount of funds available at the end of the fiscal year, to keep the amount that has to be borrowed as low as possible. “ This will require the cooperation and efforts of everyone,” he said. He said the most serious error in the budget was the apparent misunderstanding by the Board and the former superintendent, Dr. H. Dale Winger, about the accrual system, used to pay teachers salaries during the summer. He said he had discussed the budget and the reoorted errors with Dr. Winger and the former business manager, Robert Boltz, who resigned last March, and neighter were able to shed much light on the thinking process that resulted in the errors. Asked if he thought a business manager could have caught the errors, he said yes. Not Pointing Finger However, he said, “I’m not pointing the finger at anyone. Dr. Winger was in a difficult position working without a business manager. And under the budget procedure used, the Board saw so many changes in figures that it was hard to stay on top of them all.” He explained that school boards generally rely on the superintendent and business manager to come up with figures, and then based on these figures, make the decision whether to raise taxes or make cuts. He said it is hard for the average school board member to stay on top of all the changing figures in working budgets, unless he or she is used to working in depth with budgets. Accured Salaries School Board president Bill Owens told the Record that the “lion’s share of the mistake” was in the accrued salaries. He said the Board had been assured by Dr. Winger that the 1977-78 salaries were there, scattered through the budget under instruction, pupil personnel, and health. “I think Dr. Winger really believed they were there,” Owens said. “I don’t think there was any deliberate misleading on his part.” He said that everyone involved with the budget procedure must shoulder some of the responsiblility for the errors. t Board “Goofed” “We’re going to lay it on the line,” he said. “We goofed and we admit it.” “I don’t see how anybody can duck this other than live up to the responsiblity of what happened. We approved it (the budget) and in that sense it was our mistake as much as anyone’s.” “We had lousy projections and lousy estimates,” he said. However, when asked if he felt the budget procedure used had contributed to the errors he said eludes a provision allowing budgets to be reopened, Owens said he would not. Must Correct Mistake “The mistake has been made and we should sit back and do everything we can to correct it. We should not load it on the taxpayer.” “I think the whole district should sweat it,” he said. no. 5««-“The most important thing There was nevpr a time now is that we nip what we when the BoardA saw the the bottom line,” he said. “The budget would still have been put together in error if it had been done by committees (as it was done in the past) because no committee would have checked all the figures. It really goes down to looking at the total salary figures and saying this is it.” “I should have checked the figures,” he said. Asked how the projected state subsidies due to the district could have been so far off, Owens said he did not know. Asked if he would approve reopening the budget if the state legislature approves higher subsidies and in-can in the bud.’ “I don’t think we’ll ever come up with enough money to balance the budget,” he said. “I think we’ll end up with a lousy cash balance and end up borrowing.” The district will be in exactly the same situation it’s in now, he said. “We’ve already borrowed $90,000, maybe more, and we’re going to have to borrow the the next payroll.” “Dr. Bonfield is reviewing every requisition in the school district to see where we can cut down,” he said. “We’re going to rout through every item in the budget and cut where we can without hurting the educational program.” He said it will all be fun-neled through the Finance and Legal Committee. Business Manager Asked what the Board would decide to do about hiring a business manager, in light of the budget problems, Owens said the Board is waiting for a decision from Dr. Bonfield on whether the district can function better or not with a business manager. “I don’t think an inexperienced business manager would have caught this thing,” Owens said. He said he “leans toward” letting the present clerical staff handle the business department, supervised by an experienced member of the administration. “ The job needs someone familiar with school finances,” he said. Dr. Bonfield outlined the following actions that the district has already taken to help remedy the problem: Actions Being taken 1. The administration is [Continued on Page 3] Township Residents To File Appeal on Landfill Decision Penn and Elizabeth Township residents will file an official appeal with Commonwealth Court in Harrisburg Monday, seeking a reversal of Lancaster County Court’s ruling that the townships must accept a sanitary landfill that a Harrisburg geological firm wants to install along Penryn Road. Meanwhile, residents have scheduled a public meeting Tuesday, Aug. 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the Old Penryn Fire Hall, Newport Road, to bring citizens up to date on the status of the landfill problem. Scott Shank, Penry, will conduct the meeting, and a panel of residents will also be on hand for a question and answer session. The meeting is open to all interested persons. Residents have already collected nearly $4,000 in contributions toward court action, according to James Bachman, whose name will appear on the appeal as one of the intervenors. “We’ve had a good response,” Bachman said, referring to the cititzens’ fund raising. “Money is not a major problem.” Bachman said the group of citizens are now working on getting public support behind them. “We’re going all the way on this,” Bachman said. If their efforts fail at the Commonwealth Court level, they will carry their appeal to the state Surpeme Court, he said. Last November, both Penn and Elizabeth Township zoning hearing boards denied a special exception sought by R.E. Wright Associates, Harrisburg, to establish and operate a sanitary lanfill on a tract of land that lies in a rural district, partly in Penn and partly in Elizqbeth Township. Wright appealed the decisions to Lancaster County Court of Common Appeals and in July, Judge Paul A. Mueller, Jr. ruled that Wright could establish the landfill. Judge Mueller stated that the zoning hearing boards had committed an “abuse of discretion” in making several unsupported conclusions of law. Citizens had opposed the landfill for numerous reasons, including possible well and stream pollution, dust and odor, heavy truck traffic on township roads, devaluation of nearby properties, and misuse of farmland. $ THIS WEEK’S $25 JACKPOT WINNER. . . MRS. ANNA H. BAER 218 Owl Hill Rd., Lititz NOTE-Mrs. Baer or a member of her family must claim the $25 by 5 P.M. tomorrow (Friday, Aug. 19) at the LITITZ RECORD EXPRESS, 22 E. Main St. If prize is not claimed by specified time, $25 will be added to next week’s jackpot. These Persons Are Eligible for the “GRAND PRIZE” Of Gift Certificates To Be Awarded October 1st.: • Mrs. Jane Smith, 449 S. Broad St. > G. Blankenmyer, 379 E. Main St. • Jerry Shaeffer, 302 Fairview Drive • Donna Maser, 919 May Road « Raymond E. Weaver, 1431 Brunnerville Rd. > K. Geib, 605 W. Orange St. • Ruth Wagaman, 940 Rothsville Road • Kay Rihn, 128 E. Lincoln Ave. • Shirley Shenk, 656 Owl Hill Rd. • Jane Neal, 423 S. Cedar St. Complete Rules of the “Shop Lititz First" $25 Weekly Jackpot Can Be Found On Page 2. " Record Seeking Material : For 100th Anniversary Issue ; , Much of the history of Lititz and its surrounding ' ' townships is recorded in old photographs, newspaper ¡f clippings, articles, and club and church notes saved by y , residents of the area. * The Lititz Record Express is planning to publish a special edition in October to mark its 100th an- „ niversary, and is looking for any contributions local residents, or former residents may have in the way of old pictures, histories, old issues of local newspapers with headlines of significant world or national events, , etc. The paper is particularly interested in histories ' ' depicting the growth of local churches, clubs, fire and ambulance associations, industries, and businesses. All contributions will be returned to the owner upon request. They should be mailed or delivered as soon as possible to the Editor, Record Express, 22 E. Main St., Lititz, Pa. 17543, with the name of the owner attached. - The Record cannot guarantee that all items submitted > will be used, and reserves the right to select material ' ,,, to be used according to general interest and available ...„ ssi space. fjs Appeal Considered For Rothsville Doys Home Following the July 20 decision by Warwick Township zoning hearing board denying the special exception request by Pine Aires, Inc., a Manheim-b a s e d n o n - p r o f i t organization, to open a boys home in Rothsville, members of the organization may consider appealing the ruling. Though a final decision on whether or not to appeal has not been made, John Gibble, Lititz attorney and spokesman for the group reported that members will be meeting within the next few days to discuss the matter. The zoning hearing board’s denial was made on the grounds that the group home was not specifically designated as one of the special exceptions allowable under zoning regulations. Pine Aires had requested the exception, hoping to fall under the catagory of clustered living, detailed in the Warwick Township zoning ordinance as hospitals, nursing homes and clinics. The Pine Aires request had been protested by a large group of Rothsville residents when it was first presented to the board on July 15. Fearing increased vandalism and a resulting loss of property value, more than 50 concerned residents spent over three hours trying to convince the board that approval for a boys home in Rothsville would be detrimental to the neighborhood. Pine Aires spokesmen explained that the home was being planned for boys between the ages of 12 and 15 who could not be classified as “hard-core” delinquents, but who needed the guidance and security a group home could offer. Pine Aires has two more days in which to decide to take their request further via an appeal. F a m i l i a r F a c e s In this issue 1 Business Directory 14 Look for Familiar 1 Church News 12 Faces on page two. I Classified Ads 16,17 Wilbur Landis is this 1 Editorial Page 4 week’s featured per- 1 Sports Section 6,7,8 sonality. 1 Social 10 Boro Gets $6.8 Million Sewer Grant By Peggy Frailey Lititz has finally received the promised $6,852,750 federal grant for a new larger sewer treatment plant, which is expected to be started next spring and go into operation within 18 months to two years later. The grant has been in the works for the past several years, and announcement that it was awarded was received last week by the borough. It will constitute approximately 75 percent of the cost of the new plant, estimated at $9,900,000, according to Howard Red-cay, secretary of the Lititz Sewer Authority. The remainder of the cost probably will be raised through bond issues, he said. Lititz borough will have to raise $2 million and Warwick Township, $1 million, for their share of use. Warwick Township has already received a federal grant to design its own collection system to tie in with the Lititz plant. According to Lititz boro manager, David Anderson, residential sewer rates will go up somewhat when the new plant is in operation, but new rates still have to be worked out. He said rates will probably fluctuate for several years. More Employees He said that the borough expects to have to hire at least seven more employees to work with the three employees at the present treatment plant. A personnel study has not been made yet, Anderson said, and the borough is waiting for the Environmental Protection Agency to decide whether or not the new plant will have to have full work crews on all shifts. At present, full crews are on some shifts, but other shifts are covered partly by on-call employees. The new plant will be located adjacent to the present plant on Lititz Run Road. The borough now owns two acres next to the plant, but expects to purchase about 5% more acres for the expansion. According to Redcay, the tentative schedule for the new plant is: Nov. 15- advertise for bids for construction: Jan. 11, 1978- receive bids; April, 1978- closing of bond issue (after bids are in and the Authority knows how much money will be needed); Spring, 1978- start construction. At its Aug. 25 meeting, the Sewer Authority will of/ ficially accept the grant, Redcay s a id. The Authority Hillside behind Lititz’ present sewer treatment plant is part of the area that will be used for a new $9.9 million treatment plant, to be started ' r*-/- in the spring. Lititz has received a $6,852,750 federal grant to cover 75 percent of the cost of the new plant. will also have to start discussing loans for construction, since the federal grant comes in the form of periodic reimbursements for money paid to contractors. Redcay said that the Authority has already borrowed $25,000 from Farmers First Bank for some major repairs to the present sewer plant, and that the Authority does not have a big surplus of money now. Year 2000 The new plant, designed to handle flow from the borough and parts of Warwick Township up to the year 2000, is an expansion from the present 1.17 mgd. (million gallons a day) to 3.5 mgd. It was ordered by EPA to improve the quality of effluent going into Lititz Run. It includes parts of Warwick Township where malfunctioning septic tanks are endangering water purity, according to EPA. In the new plant, 43 percent of the designed flow is reserved for industries, the biggest users being Travis Mills, which has reserved capacity for 600,000 gallons a day, and Cellu Products, at 350,000 gallons a day. It is designed for an ultimate population of 20,000 people in the borough and Warwick Township (two million gallons a day residential flow) and an industrial flow capacity of 1.5 mgd by the year 2000. Plant Overloaded By comparison, the present plant, now overloaded, is serving an initial population of 14,500 persons and receives a flow of 950,000 gallons a day from industry. It will be a tertiary (three-stage) plant, as compared with the present secondary plant the borough now has, and will be designed to convert sewage into water that is 95 percent pure. This will flow into Lititz Run. The big difference between a three-stage and a two-stage plant is that the former removes nitrates and phosphorus from the effluent, Anderson said. The new plant has been over seven years in the planning, and the present plans are the third set drawn up by the engineers hired by the borough, Betz Environmental Engineers (formerly Albright and Friel). The first plans were for a 2.4 mgd plant, the second for a 3.1 mgd plant, and the third, accepted plans for a 3.5 mgd plant. According to Redcay, the borough has already spent $241,689 on land, e n g i n e e r i n g , an d miscellaneous related to these plans, $231,000 of this for engineering alone. He said that any parts of the plans not used in the new plant will not be reimbursed by the government. Heritage Choir To Perform At Park Community Park Services will be held at 6:45 p.m. on Sunday, August 21, with music by the Heritage Choir, and First Church of God in charge of the devotional program and the Word. The service will be held in Lititz Springs Park and in case of rain, services will be held in St. Paul Lutheran Church. Bells will sound in Lititz in the event that the service will be held indoors. Pastor Paul Kocher of First Chuch of God will present the devotions and the Word, and the Heritage Choir will be directed by Julia Keehn and Virginia Burkey. Accompanists will be Donna Burkholder, organ, and Jean Longenecker, piano. Music will include “ Praise, Thanksgiving, Glory, Honor” , “Hymn to the Trinity”, “Recessional,’ by Reginald De Koven, “Holy Art Thou” , and “Hallelujah Chorus” from “ Mount of Olives” by Beethoven, all performed by the full choir. The Men’s Ensemble will sing “ Enternal Father, Strong to Save” (Navy Hymn), “Onward Christian Soldiers”, and “Holy, Holy, Holy”. Other selections from the full choir will be “America, Our Dream”, “The Nation’s P rayer” , “Honor and Glory” , Hymn of Brotherhood”, “Let There Be Peace on Earth”, and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”. All persons are invited to join in the community-wide service and to enjoy the now-traditional Heritage Choir. |
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