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by Kathleen King
Four fires in a little over
three weeks have led fire
officials and the Pennsylva­nia
State Police to determine
there is an arsonist at large in
Lititz borough.
Several of the fires
involved garage/bams in
Lititz alleys; one was at the
recycling shed; a fourth was
set in a dumpster while fire­fighters
were already on a
call. Signs of a fifth attempt
on a garage have also been
discovered.
The most recent fire
occurred early Saturday
morning just after midnight.
\ tu r .i.v on Rodiics 1 aiie.
owned by David Yeagley,
120 E. Lincoln Ave., was
deliberately set on fire.
“By the time we got there
we had a working fire,”
Lititz Fire Chief Joe Texter
said early this week. Texter
said the fire was set in a large
quantity of fireplace wood
and construction wood lying
next to the garage.
“The fire spread to and
through the garage,” Texter
said. Yeagley was “just
barely” able to get his car out
of the garage before the
building was engulfed in
flames, the chief said.
Damage to the garage and
contents i>* estimated at
Ron Nuss and Dan Hinkel discuss the routing of water mains through the
neighborhoods of Rothsville. The long-awaitea water project is quickly
becoming a reality as workmen lay lines connecting the neighborhoods to the
township’s well.
Main construction underway
fo r Rothsville water system
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by Becky Collins
Warwick Township’s
Municipal Authority could
open the spigot providing
long-awaited public water to
the people of Rothsville as
early as next spring, accord­ing
to the Authority’s opera­tions
manager, Ron Nuss.
Nuss is currently oversee­ing
the’laying of water mains
through the village, a project
that began in mid-August.
To date, six-inch water
conduits have been laid from
the project’s well site to a
majority of the properties on
Rothsville Station Road and
Pleasant View Drive.
Construction is also well
underway on the cinder-block
wellhouse on Roths­ville
Station Road. Shrubs
and trees are being cleared
on a portion of the old tennis
courts behind the Rothsville
School Apartments to pre­pare
the site for the system’s
250,000 gallon water stor­age
tank.
The 80-foot storage tank
is expected to be erected in
the next few weeks. Nuss
explained that the tank will
hold a two to three-day
reserve supply of water and
provide needed water pres­sure
for the community.
Plans are also being for­mulated
to begin construc­tion
of the main transmis­sion
lines along Route 772.
Although specific routing
and construction scheduling
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Workmen prepare to join sections of the water
main on Pleasant View Road in Warwick
Township.
is not available at this time,
Larry Zimmerman, Authori­ty
engineer states; “Just as
soon as we can successfully
schedule a meeting with
PennDOT officials and
agree to specific conditions
under which we may pro­ceed
on the state roadway,”
(Rothsville Road via Main
Street and Newport Road
East) “present work will
cease and begin almost
immediately on the state
highway.”
Inconveniences
With the installation of
some 24,325 feet (or 4.61
miles) of water main, tem­porary
inconveniences will
be found throughout the
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Several staff changes
have been made recently in
the editorial department of
The Lititz-Record Express.
Dave Knauss, former
copy editor of The Ephrata
Review, has been named
editor. He replaces Kathleen
King who is taking a posi •
tion as community educa­tion
specialist with the Lan­caster
County Office of
Mental He alth/Menta l
Retardation.
Jed Kensinger of Penryn
is the new feature/education
reporter.
Knauss is a graduate of
Dickinson College, Carlisle,
where he majored in Ameri­can
Studies. Prior to his
employment at The Ephrata
Review he was a reporter for
the Lebanon Daily News
and a reporter-photographer
and sports editor of the Perry
County Times.
At the Lebanon Daily
News he covered agricul­ture,
the Eastern Lebanon
County School District and
Lebanon City Police. He
received an Editorial Award
of Excellence from Thom­son
Newspapers for a three-part
series on conflicts
between farmers and neigh­boring
homeowners in
Lebanon County.
His work at the Perry
County Times included cov­ering
the school district, the
county commissioners, the
borough council and writing
feature stories.
He was named co-winner
of the 1986 Excellence in
Communications Award
from the Pennsylvania State
Association of Township
Supervisors for co-writing a
21-part series on Perry
County Townships.
An outdoors enthusiast,
Knauss bicycled 4,330 miles
across the United States on
the Trans-America Bicycle
Trail ,in 1976.
He has participated in
community theater and was
a volunter at Philhaven
Hospital.
He is a graduate of Central
Dauphin High School and a
native of Harrisburg.
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Township again delays vote on manure ordinance
by Becky Collins
Warwick Township’s
board of supervisors has
once again delayed action on
a proposed manure manage­ment
ordinance at the
request of the Lancaster
C o u n t y F a rm e r s
Association.
Gordon Hoover, repre­senting
the Farmers Associ­ation,
said his group is work­ing
with the County Conser­vation
District to “clarify the
ordinance and spell out the
responsibilities of the far­mers
and the enforcing
agency.”
The original ordinance,
written by the Lancaster
County Conservation Dis­trict
five months ago, was
sent to all the townships in
the county for consideration.
First considered by the
Warwick Township board of
supervisors in August, the
supervisors noted that they
had been looking for an
appropriate manure man­agement
ordinance for sev­eral
years.
Their concern has been
spurred by growing animal
populations on typically
small farms in the township
and the subsequent amounts
of manure generated on
those farms.
Hoover asked the board to
delay their vote until after
the two groups have had a
chance to redraft the ordi­nance.
“The revisions will
be much more acceptable to
the township and to the far­mers,”
Hoover promised.
He added that the intent of
the Farmers Association is
not to change the basic intent
of the ordinance. To the con­trary,
he said, the intent is “to
refine some of the language
in the ordinance to make it
more w o rk a b le and
effective.”
Both groups are working
to create a model ordinance
that would be presented to
all townships in the county
in order to seek uniformity in
the management of animal
wastes.
The proposed ordinance
requires a farmer who wants
to initiate or significantly
increase his poultry or lives­tock
operation to develop a
nutrient plan. The plan
would be recommended by
the soil conservation district
and approved by the town­ship
board of supervisors.
The nutrient management
plan would outline the use of
all manure, sludge and
chemical fertilizers and
show in detail the locations
of fields where those pro­ducts
will be deposited.
Current livestock and
poultry operations will be
unaffected by this ordinance
unless they expand, noted
Hoover.
“The farmer would only
be required to obtain a per­mit
when he changes the use
of his land, expands his
operation, if there’s a risk of
pollution or if he’s been
cited previously by the
Department of Environmen-t
a 1 R e s o u r c e s , ” he
explained.
Hoover noted that the
sample ordinance was writ­ten
to answer the concern
over water quality.
“(Farmers are) interested
in water quality,” he stated.
“So we support the intent of
this ordinance.”
Chairman of the board of
supervisors, Irei D. Buck-waiter,
noted that the soil
conservation district is now
looking at compiling a
county-wide ordinance. For
Warwick Township farmers,
the reality of a manure man­agement
ordinance is only
temporarily delayed.
“I think this board’s inten­tion
is to pass an ordinance
on manure,” Buckwalter
stated as the board agreed to
wait for final revisions to the
sample ordinance.
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Inside
Today’s
Record
Business 18
Church 16
Classified 20-23
Editorial 4
Manheim 17
Out of the Past 20
Social 14-15
Sports 6,7,8
Weaver a t work Booters earn trophy
Harriet Shuman is
one of 10 craftsmen
who will demonstrate
her special skills at the
annual Moravian Man­or
Festival Saturday
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The festival will also
offer food, music by the
“Out of Towners,” a
quilt auction, games,
pony cart rides and
Moravian Sugar Cake.
See story on page 18.
Mike Kobilic and
Dana Clark are the
Warwick High School
soccer team captains.
The team recently
marked a milestone,
earning its first trophy
in two years of exis­tence
as a varsity sport
at Warwick. Read
about the soccer team
and other area sports in
the sports section,
pages 6, 7 and 8.
$7,000. A garage “inches
away” from the Yeagley
garage also suffered dam­age.
That building is owned
by James Eby, 216 E. Lin­coln
Ave.
In addition, a building
across the alley owned by
Roy S. Reidenbaugh electri­cal
contracting firm, 130
Rodney Lane, had some
damage to the siding from
radiant heat, Texter added.
While the 31 firemen, six
fire police and the Warwick
Ambulance was on the scene
there, a second call came in
at 1 a.m. for a dumpster fire
at Luther Acres.
The Rothsville Fire Com­pany,
on standby for Lititz,
responded to that fire, Texter
said. The dumpster fire is
also labeled “suspicious.”
Two firefighters sus­tained
injuries on the Rod­ney
Lane fire. They are
Jamie Adams, who had a
strained knee, and Randy
Pfautz, with a nail puncture
to the knee.
Only two days before, just
before midnight on Wednes­day,
Sept. 7, an arsonist set
the recycling shed on Roths­ville
Road on fire.
A passing motorist spot­ted
the fire and alerted offi­cials.
The shed is used by the
Water Street Rescue mission
as a recycling drop-off site
for Lititz Borough and War­wick
Township. It sustained
about $1,000 in damages.
The fire was extinguished
by the Lititz Fire Company.
A fourth fire on Aug. 17
has also been labeled arson.
That fire occurred at an old
warehouse next to the Vil­lage
Pedaler. However,
quick action and early detec­tion
prevented that fire from
becoming a major one, Tex­ter
said.
The fire was set to the rear
of the building on North
Lane. It was detected by
Dale Roberts, a member of
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Staff changes made
at Record Express
Conrail to close boro streets
fo r track replacement project
by Becky Collins
Conrail Inc. will begin
replacing the worn rail line
through Lititz on Monday,
Sept. 19 signaling, whatthey
believe will be a complete
overhaul of the track in Lititz
borough.
Known in railroad verna­cular
as a “secondary track,”
the Lititz track serves only
four industries within the
borough’s boundaries.
Conrail officials working
on the Lititz track note that
the company is currently
upgrading a number of its
secondary tracks. Many of
those tracks, like the Lititz
track, are lines that have
never been replaced.
Originally part of the Phi­ladelphia
and Reading Rail­road
line, the Lititz track
received new ties this sum­mer.
Officials anticipate
completion of the entire
upgrade either in 1989 or
1990.
The current project,
replacement of the tracks on
street crossings, is expected
to be completed by the end
of October.
According to a memoran­dum
received from Lititz
Borough Police Chief James
Fritz, the first area affected
by the track replacement
will be the first two blocks of
North Cedar Street south of
East Main Street to the Front
Street intersection.
Beginning at 7 a.m. Sept.
19, the two-block area will
be closed to traffic as Con­rail
crews begin replacing
the line at the street crossing.
The street crossing is
expected to be closed
through Friday, Sept. 23.
Warwick School District
officials and the borough
police department have
compiled a temporary walk­ing
route for students who
would normally walk the
route including North Cedar
Street. (See related article.)
The second street cross­ing
scheduled for replace­ment,
Water Street north of
East Main Street to Front
Street, is scheduled to close
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A reminder to parents
The first block of
North Cedar Street will
be closed Sept. 19
through 23 due to Conrail
track replacement. Stu­dents
walking to Lititz
Elementary should travel
on the east side of North
Water Street to East Main
Street and then return to
the North Cedar Street/
East Main Street crossing
to avoid the construction
area.
Dr. Daniel Doremus,
assistant superintendent
of schools for the War­wick
School District,
noted that the crossing
guard and safety patrols
will remain at the Front
Street/North Cedar Street
and North Cedar Street/
E a s t M a in S tr e e t
intersections.
In addition, a crossing
guard and safety patrols
will be placed at the Front
Street/North Water Street
intersection. A safety pat­rol
will be stationed at the
east side of North Lane
and a crossing guard and
safety patrol will be sta­tioned
at the North Water
Street/East Main Street
intersection.
Because of street and
sidewalk repairs on East
Orange Street, school
buses will continue
loading/discharging stu­dents
at Lititz Elementary
on South Cedar Street.
A temporary bus zone
has been established
between the alley and
East Orange Street until
the work is completed.
Parents are requested not
to park in this area before
or after school.
Merchants send Welcome Boxes
Every September up to
100 girls from all over the
United States and several
countries throughout the
world come to their home
away from home - Linden
Hall.
This year, to greet their
arrival, a group of Lititz area
merchants, under the direc­tion
of a Linden Hall alumni
mother, put together a “wel­come
box” of samples, dis­c
o u n t c o u p o n s an d
merchandise.
The project was directed
by Christy Wagner, whose
daughter, Amy, graduated
from Linden Hall last year.
Earlier in the spring Mrs.
Wagner contacted the Lititz
Retailers Association and
explained her idea of a
project.
. “These girls support the
merchants and I thought it
would be nice for the mer­chants
to thank them in some
w a y ,” M rs. W a g n e r
explained.
The Retailers Association
sent out a letter to area mer­chants
detailing the project,
she said. Then this summer
she contacted a number of
the merchants and asked
them if they cared to donate
a small gift - a discount cou­pon,
a gift certificate, a small
item of merchandise.
Thirteen local stores and
manufactures contributed to
the project, she said.
They are, Dori Mae’s
Dress Shop, Farmer’s First
Bank, Glassmyers, Lititz
Book Store, McElroy’s,
Deli-L, Pewter Mug, The
Sturgis Pretzel House, Bur­ger
King, Promises Gift
Shop, Abagail’s, Wilbur
Chocolate and Warner
Lambert.
In addition, an area citizen
donated the boxes, she said.
Bobbi Wachter, wife of
Linden Hall headmaster
David Wachter, said the
girls received their boxes
this week. New students
arrived Monday and the rest
of the students returned
Tuesday, she said. Classes
began Wednesday.
“It’s a wonderful project,
a personal thing,” Mrs.
Wachter said.
Mrs. Wagner is hoping
that someone or some group
in Lititz will take on the pro­ject
in the future.
“This is their home for
nine months of the year,” she
pointed out. “It’s important
that they feel welcome.”
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Christy Wagner, coordinatorofthe “welcome box” project is surrounded by
Linden Hall students looking at items donated by Lititz area merchants. The
students are, from left, front, Karen Kitzmiller, Lancaster; Sara Mullen, Saudi
Arabia; Katrina Reed, Florida; Ruba Darwaza, Saudi Arabia; second row, Ste­phanie
Kubeck, Philadelphia; Heidi Polley, Robesonia; Sharifa Ives, Saudi
Arabia; third row, Yukiko Hirose, Tokyo; Christy Smith, Ft. Smith, Ark.; and
Erin Kronenberg, Carlisle.