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ÎSDAY, July 17, 1997 m m m m am m m m m n . um a am m m m L ï î -V" - a - u r d E x p r e s s 121 ST YEAR 2 4 P a g e s - N o . 1 4 LSTITZ, PENNSYLVANIA T w o s e c t i o n s 3 0 c e n t s m m m s& vm m INS' ju g g lin g t o B a ltim o r e Chris Ivey of Lititz has become known around town for his juggling skills, and now he is taking them to a new audience down at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor for several shows this summer. Page 6. □ Sports Berkey advances as East-West All-Star Lititz Legion outfielder Steve Berkey qualified to play in the Pennsylvania American Legion All-East All-Star game at Veteran’s Stadium in Philadelphia on Tuesday. While he was inere. -’is performance quaiinsd rum' to advance to the highest i^ve in Legion baseba'C the East- West AT-Star game. Pags y. Business...................... o- i 9 Churcn................................ ; n Classified...................,.,.21-23 Editoria: / Lot ■.am........ .. a Entertainrnen............... 12, ¿.0 Manheim News...................17 Obituaries / Births..............2-3 Out of the Past............ 17, 19 Police Log............................7 School News......... .............. 6 Social............................14-15 Sports.............. ............... 8-11 ' s : A u d i i agreeme - Union wo Villa retirem- Lititz have a r lowing near1 ongoing ne 18. Also, loc Brent and 1. opened their Keath’s Fan along Doe Rv Renaissance Fa»re returns wnn a oang The Pa. Renaissance Faire at Mount Hope Estate and Winery is returning on Aug. 2 for another season of merriment and royal entertainment. This year’s Faire also has an exciting new addition. For a preview, see Page 12. Pleasant View proposes expansion The Pleasant View Retirement Community in Penn Township is looking to expand its present facility by adding 125 apartments and 36 cottage units. Page 17. V ¡#Hv Parents cautious after explosion STEPHEN SEEBER ?.. Ï mm l ljt*r - ■*- 'V. "Ef,- SM I P Photo b y StephertSeeber Trisha Panos (left) and Kaitlin Brophy have little time to worry about bombs as they play in Lititz Run, but many parents plan to stay a little closer to their kids during visits to local parks. Action lik e ly at bad in tersection Record Express Staff LITITZ — Even though police claim all six pipe bombs made by a group of local teens are accounted for, residents continue to use the borough’s parks with caution. One of the bombs, made with gunpowder and a four-inch steel pipe, exploded at the public park along New Street last Friday evening. No one was hurt, but the blast did considerable damage to the park pavilion and neighbors were startled. Lititz police quickly arrested two 15-year-old boys and later found out that four other teens were involved. Federal ATF agents were brought in for the investigation, and because the boys in custody would not cooperate in disclosing the locations of the other bombs, an alert was issued to the press on Monday that warned residents to be on the lookout for the missing explosives. It was later learned that the boys pulled instructions on how to build a bomb from the Internet. Testimony from the oihev teens led police to the remaining bombs, one of which was reportedly set off behind the CVS Pharmacy on South Broad Street. An Army bomb squad from Fort Indaintown Gap detonated the last of the bombs Monday night, and on Tuesday Lititz Mayor Russell Pettyjohn said the borough was again safe for recreational use. Still, the thought of homemade bombs randomly placed around town had people on the edge. “Maybe I should take them (the kids) out of here,” said Anne Quat-trone, who was watching her grandchildren play in Lititz Springs Park. Quattrone said that she heard about the bombs, but was unaware that one exploded at the New Street Park. “That’s frightening,” she said. “I did tell (the kids) not to touch anything.” Activity appeared to be normal in the public parks around town on Tuesday. People were walking dogs, boys played basketball at the New Street park, and children were using (S;s Pine Bomb, Page 24) ■ ■ H i STEPHEN SEEBER Record Express Staff BRICKERVILLE Hie recent collision at Brubaker Valley Road ' and Route 501, which sent eight people to the hospital, sparked more concern from Elizabeth Township’s supervisors during their monthly meeting Monday night Although rnosl of the accidents have beers attributed to human error and a 1996 PennDOT traffic study determined that traffic lights were not warranted, Supervisor Chairman Larry Wiker stressed that something needs to be done before there is a fatal accident. The intersection has consistently been referred to as one of the most dangerous in the township. So far none of the accidents have taken a human life, but many of the neighbors and some of the supervisors feel that day may just be a matter of time. “I’d like to start pushing for a red light again,” said Wiker. “I don’t want to approve a light after a death and then feel we’ve done a good thing.” When the township inquired about a traffic signal last October, Pen-nDOT’s district engineer, Barry Hoffman, responded with, an in-depth traffic study at the intersection. In a Dec. 17 letter to the supervisors, Hoffman wrote that an analysis was done on 16 reportable accidents at that location. Drivers and/or witnesses interviewed stated that they did stop and then pulled into oncoming traffic. PennDOT did agree to widen the stop bars on the roadway, but that in (See Accident, Page 24) Water gar den Tour runs through boro JILL IVEY Record Express Staff LITITZ —- Once again Stauffers of Kissel Hill is presenting a free watergardening tour throughout Lancaster County. The event will take place Saturday, July 19 from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Brochures with directions and descriptions of all the homes are available at any Stauffers of Kissel Hill. Several Lititz homes are included in the tour. One of those homes belongs to Kerry and Missy Felty, 937 May Road' The Felty home features two smaller ponds and one large pond off the back patio of the home. Kerry said that loves walking through the forest and coming across a hidden stream or pond. It was that feeling which Felty tried to capture. “I like subtlety,” said Kerry. “I’m not into' grandios. I like little surprises.” He said his wife wanted nothing to do with watergardens in the backyard, but now he said she even feeds the more than 18 fish which reside in the pond. Kerry said that he and his son Chad dug out the pond in an afternoon four years ago. He said that after three months they thought it was mature. “It’s never really mature,” said Kerry. “There are always spaces to fill in.” The yard also features a stone walkway, which with some imagina- • fion resembles a tulip. The walkway leads to a veranda. The roof of the veranda is a crabapple tree entwined with a grape vine. Kerry said he tried to relate different areas of the yard to each other. He strived for a park-like setting with the pond as the focal point “We needed to accent and soften the yard,” he said. “I like to have things flowing.” Kerry said the garden is a lot of busywork, but it is always fun. He said that once the pond is established it is low maintenar.ce. Perfection is not something Kerry is interested in. “You never get (the watergardens) perfect, but perfection’s boring anyway,” he said. (See Watergarden, Page 24) Photo b y Richard Reitz Ian Ross, 4, of Lititz was visibly disappointed about the loss of the playground he used to play on at St. Paul’s Nursery School. Still, he was as optimistic as he could be, saying that he and the other kids could still play on some of the other pieces behind the church. Dream playground goes up in flames RICHARD REITZ Record Express Editor LIT ITZ—In a flash, an unknown vandal has destroyed something that has brought enjoyment to preschoolers over the past two years. Shortly after the July 3 Independence Day Parade, at around 8:30 p.m., a night custodian at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church on Orange Street noticed flames on the playground equipment in the area behind the church where the nursery school students often play. He used a fire extingusher and called the Lititz Fire Company for assistance to put out the blaze, but not before the fire irreparably damaged the $3,500 plastic apparatus. Today, the multi-colored playground that inspired excitement in the eyes of young children sits covered in a solid blue tarp with a yellow caution banner draped around it “It’s just really disappointing,” said Carol Ross of Lititz, whose 4-year-old son Ian attends the nursery school. “Because of some unsupervised children, these children here will have nowhere to play.” Apparently a fire was started by one or more people in a part of the playground equipment that resembled a U ------- -------— - — — — — ----------------- “Those children are probably w on dering, sWhy did somebody do th is to as? W e ’re ju s t k id s.’” Denise Bedger, director St. Paul’s Nursery School — — — -----— -----— ------— 99 house. It appears to have started in a pretend fireplace. The piece also featurlii three sliding boards and dome windows for the children. Although the entire structure was not burned, the flames caused enough damaged to the core of the structure to damage the overall integrity of the support and render it a total loss. “We contacted the company, and determined that it is safer to just replace the whole thing,” Ross said. She added that they are still unsure of how to dispose of it Parents, kids, and staff at the nursery school are left flabergasted by this act of vandalism. Even young Ian offered his thoughts on what the kids can do now in the playground. (See Playground, Page 24) Bonfield marks 2 decades at Warwick RICHARD REITZ Bonfield Record Express Editor LITITZ— On his second full day on the job, Warwick School District superintendent Dr. John R. Bonfield was faced with a controversial situation. Twenty years ago this week, residents in Rothsviile were upset at a school board decision to close the Rothsviile Elementary School, and submitted a petition with the signatures of 612 people who felt the same way. The decision to close the wooden building for one year had already been made before Bonfield officially became superintendent on July 18, 1977, and following that meeting, those residents left disappointed that their last ditch effort failed. “The building did not meet fire codes, and would have cost $1 million to renovate,” Bonfield said in an interview with the Record Express on Monday. ‘The general feeling was that it was best to close i t ” Bonfield was a new name and face for the people of Lititz and Warwick in 1977. Two decades later, Bonfield and Warwick School District are virtually synonymous. Friday marks his official 20th anniversary with Warwick, which is quite an accomplishment, consider-ing the average school district superintendent tenure in Pennsylvania is 3.2 years. “We are kind of like baseball managers,” Bonfield joked. Even Bonfield, 60, admits that when he first arrived at Warwick, he did not expect to remain this long. “I came here expecting I would be around for seven or eight years,” the longtime educator said. “I figured that every year you make 10 percent of the people unhappy, so at that point it might be a good time to move on.” But he never reached that level, and despite receiving several lucrative offers to become superintendent for other school districts, he has turned down each one. The reason was simple. He and his family moved into the Lititz community, and like so many others, fell in love with it. “You get to meet a lot of great people,” he said. “It is truly a wonderful small town atmosphere. It was a wonderful move for us; a change that was all for the best.” He said in a recent offer, they wanted him to move out of this community. “I just didn’t want to do that.” Never was the support of this community so important to him than in (See Bonfield, Page 24)
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Title | Lititz Record Express |
Masthead | Lititz Record Express 1997-07-17 |
Subject | Lititz (Pa.) -- Newspapers;Lancaster County (Pa.)—Newspapers |
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Date | 1997-07-17 |
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Subject | Lititz (Pa.) -- Newspapers;Lancaster County (Pa.)—Newspapers |
Location Covered | United States;Pennsylvania;Lancaster County (Pa.);Lititz (Pa.);Warwick (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) |
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Full Text | ÎSDAY, July 17, 1997 m m m m am m m m m n . um a am m m m L ï î -V" - a - u r d E x p r e s s 121 ST YEAR 2 4 P a g e s - N o . 1 4 LSTITZ, PENNSYLVANIA T w o s e c t i o n s 3 0 c e n t s m m m s& vm m INS' ju g g lin g t o B a ltim o r e Chris Ivey of Lititz has become known around town for his juggling skills, and now he is taking them to a new audience down at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor for several shows this summer. Page 6. □ Sports Berkey advances as East-West All-Star Lititz Legion outfielder Steve Berkey qualified to play in the Pennsylvania American Legion All-East All-Star game at Veteran’s Stadium in Philadelphia on Tuesday. While he was inere. -’is performance quaiinsd rum' to advance to the highest i^ve in Legion baseba'C the East- West AT-Star game. Pags y. Business...................... o- i 9 Churcn................................ ; n Classified...................,.,.21-23 Editoria: / Lot ■.am........ .. a Entertainrnen............... 12, ¿.0 Manheim News...................17 Obituaries / Births..............2-3 Out of the Past............ 17, 19 Police Log............................7 School News......... .............. 6 Social............................14-15 Sports.............. ............... 8-11 ' s : A u d i i agreeme - Union wo Villa retirem- Lititz have a r lowing near1 ongoing ne 18. Also, loc Brent and 1. opened their Keath’s Fan along Doe Rv Renaissance Fa»re returns wnn a oang The Pa. Renaissance Faire at Mount Hope Estate and Winery is returning on Aug. 2 for another season of merriment and royal entertainment. This year’s Faire also has an exciting new addition. For a preview, see Page 12. Pleasant View proposes expansion The Pleasant View Retirement Community in Penn Township is looking to expand its present facility by adding 125 apartments and 36 cottage units. Page 17. V ¡#Hv Parents cautious after explosion STEPHEN SEEBER ?.. Ï mm l ljt*r - ■*- 'V. "Ef,- SM I P Photo b y StephertSeeber Trisha Panos (left) and Kaitlin Brophy have little time to worry about bombs as they play in Lititz Run, but many parents plan to stay a little closer to their kids during visits to local parks. Action lik e ly at bad in tersection Record Express Staff LITITZ — Even though police claim all six pipe bombs made by a group of local teens are accounted for, residents continue to use the borough’s parks with caution. One of the bombs, made with gunpowder and a four-inch steel pipe, exploded at the public park along New Street last Friday evening. No one was hurt, but the blast did considerable damage to the park pavilion and neighbors were startled. Lititz police quickly arrested two 15-year-old boys and later found out that four other teens were involved. Federal ATF agents were brought in for the investigation, and because the boys in custody would not cooperate in disclosing the locations of the other bombs, an alert was issued to the press on Monday that warned residents to be on the lookout for the missing explosives. It was later learned that the boys pulled instructions on how to build a bomb from the Internet. Testimony from the oihev teens led police to the remaining bombs, one of which was reportedly set off behind the CVS Pharmacy on South Broad Street. An Army bomb squad from Fort Indaintown Gap detonated the last of the bombs Monday night, and on Tuesday Lititz Mayor Russell Pettyjohn said the borough was again safe for recreational use. Still, the thought of homemade bombs randomly placed around town had people on the edge. “Maybe I should take them (the kids) out of here,” said Anne Quat-trone, who was watching her grandchildren play in Lititz Springs Park. Quattrone said that she heard about the bombs, but was unaware that one exploded at the New Street Park. “That’s frightening,” she said. “I did tell (the kids) not to touch anything.” Activity appeared to be normal in the public parks around town on Tuesday. People were walking dogs, boys played basketball at the New Street park, and children were using (S;s Pine Bomb, Page 24) ■ ■ H i STEPHEN SEEBER Record Express Staff BRICKERVILLE Hie recent collision at Brubaker Valley Road ' and Route 501, which sent eight people to the hospital, sparked more concern from Elizabeth Township’s supervisors during their monthly meeting Monday night Although rnosl of the accidents have beers attributed to human error and a 1996 PennDOT traffic study determined that traffic lights were not warranted, Supervisor Chairman Larry Wiker stressed that something needs to be done before there is a fatal accident. The intersection has consistently been referred to as one of the most dangerous in the township. So far none of the accidents have taken a human life, but many of the neighbors and some of the supervisors feel that day may just be a matter of time. “I’d like to start pushing for a red light again,” said Wiker. “I don’t want to approve a light after a death and then feel we’ve done a good thing.” When the township inquired about a traffic signal last October, Pen-nDOT’s district engineer, Barry Hoffman, responded with, an in-depth traffic study at the intersection. In a Dec. 17 letter to the supervisors, Hoffman wrote that an analysis was done on 16 reportable accidents at that location. Drivers and/or witnesses interviewed stated that they did stop and then pulled into oncoming traffic. PennDOT did agree to widen the stop bars on the roadway, but that in (See Accident, Page 24) Water gar den Tour runs through boro JILL IVEY Record Express Staff LITITZ —- Once again Stauffers of Kissel Hill is presenting a free watergardening tour throughout Lancaster County. The event will take place Saturday, July 19 from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Brochures with directions and descriptions of all the homes are available at any Stauffers of Kissel Hill. Several Lititz homes are included in the tour. One of those homes belongs to Kerry and Missy Felty, 937 May Road' The Felty home features two smaller ponds and one large pond off the back patio of the home. Kerry said that loves walking through the forest and coming across a hidden stream or pond. It was that feeling which Felty tried to capture. “I like subtlety,” said Kerry. “I’m not into' grandios. I like little surprises.” He said his wife wanted nothing to do with watergardens in the backyard, but now he said she even feeds the more than 18 fish which reside in the pond. Kerry said that he and his son Chad dug out the pond in an afternoon four years ago. He said that after three months they thought it was mature. “It’s never really mature,” said Kerry. “There are always spaces to fill in.” The yard also features a stone walkway, which with some imagina- • fion resembles a tulip. The walkway leads to a veranda. The roof of the veranda is a crabapple tree entwined with a grape vine. Kerry said he tried to relate different areas of the yard to each other. He strived for a park-like setting with the pond as the focal point “We needed to accent and soften the yard,” he said. “I like to have things flowing.” Kerry said the garden is a lot of busywork, but it is always fun. He said that once the pond is established it is low maintenar.ce. Perfection is not something Kerry is interested in. “You never get (the watergardens) perfect, but perfection’s boring anyway,” he said. (See Watergarden, Page 24) Photo b y Richard Reitz Ian Ross, 4, of Lititz was visibly disappointed about the loss of the playground he used to play on at St. Paul’s Nursery School. Still, he was as optimistic as he could be, saying that he and the other kids could still play on some of the other pieces behind the church. Dream playground goes up in flames RICHARD REITZ Record Express Editor LIT ITZ—In a flash, an unknown vandal has destroyed something that has brought enjoyment to preschoolers over the past two years. Shortly after the July 3 Independence Day Parade, at around 8:30 p.m., a night custodian at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church on Orange Street noticed flames on the playground equipment in the area behind the church where the nursery school students often play. He used a fire extingusher and called the Lititz Fire Company for assistance to put out the blaze, but not before the fire irreparably damaged the $3,500 plastic apparatus. Today, the multi-colored playground that inspired excitement in the eyes of young children sits covered in a solid blue tarp with a yellow caution banner draped around it “It’s just really disappointing,” said Carol Ross of Lititz, whose 4-year-old son Ian attends the nursery school. “Because of some unsupervised children, these children here will have nowhere to play.” Apparently a fire was started by one or more people in a part of the playground equipment that resembled a U ------- -------— - — — — — ----------------- “Those children are probably w on dering, sWhy did somebody do th is to as? W e ’re ju s t k id s.’” Denise Bedger, director St. Paul’s Nursery School — — — -----— -----— ------— 99 house. It appears to have started in a pretend fireplace. The piece also featurlii three sliding boards and dome windows for the children. Although the entire structure was not burned, the flames caused enough damaged to the core of the structure to damage the overall integrity of the support and render it a total loss. “We contacted the company, and determined that it is safer to just replace the whole thing,” Ross said. She added that they are still unsure of how to dispose of it Parents, kids, and staff at the nursery school are left flabergasted by this act of vandalism. Even young Ian offered his thoughts on what the kids can do now in the playground. (See Playground, Page 24) Bonfield marks 2 decades at Warwick RICHARD REITZ Bonfield Record Express Editor LITITZ— On his second full day on the job, Warwick School District superintendent Dr. John R. Bonfield was faced with a controversial situation. Twenty years ago this week, residents in Rothsviile were upset at a school board decision to close the Rothsviile Elementary School, and submitted a petition with the signatures of 612 people who felt the same way. The decision to close the wooden building for one year had already been made before Bonfield officially became superintendent on July 18, 1977, and following that meeting, those residents left disappointed that their last ditch effort failed. “The building did not meet fire codes, and would have cost $1 million to renovate,” Bonfield said in an interview with the Record Express on Monday. ‘The general feeling was that it was best to close i t ” Bonfield was a new name and face for the people of Lititz and Warwick in 1977. Two decades later, Bonfield and Warwick School District are virtually synonymous. Friday marks his official 20th anniversary with Warwick, which is quite an accomplishment, consider-ing the average school district superintendent tenure in Pennsylvania is 3.2 years. “We are kind of like baseball managers,” Bonfield joked. Even Bonfield, 60, admits that when he first arrived at Warwick, he did not expect to remain this long. “I came here expecting I would be around for seven or eight years,” the longtime educator said. “I figured that every year you make 10 percent of the people unhappy, so at that point it might be a good time to move on.” But he never reached that level, and despite receiving several lucrative offers to become superintendent for other school districts, he has turned down each one. The reason was simple. He and his family moved into the Lititz community, and like so many others, fell in love with it. “You get to meet a lot of great people,” he said. “It is truly a wonderful small town atmosphere. It was a wonderful move for us; a change that was all for the best.” He said in a recent offer, they wanted him to move out of this community. “I just didn’t want to do that.” Never was the support of this community so important to him than in (See Bonfield, Page 24) |
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