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LITITZ
Discovering our town through the eyes o f tth Graders
Learning Lititz
Every year, fourth graders in
the Warwick School District
learn about their historic home­town.
Starting next week, those
fourth graders will be sharing
their thoughts on Lititz and its
historic buildings, its important
events, and its influential citi­zens
throughout history. Don’t
miss it!
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□School
Warwick Strings
The Warwick High School or­chestra
has been busy in No­vember,
including preparations
for an upcoming Pops Concert
with other schools. Page 6. EEntertainment
Travelogue
This Saturday, The Lititz Ro­tary
Club is hosting travel film­maker
Fran Reidelberger as he
presents a travelogue on “Ba­varia
and the Black Forest.”
Details are on Page 16.
□ Social
Gatekeepers
Are you a maternal “gate­keeper”?
Husbands and wives
will be interested to learn out
what Kathy Blankenbiller is
talking about in this week’s In
Sites column on Page 10.
□ Religion
Vets Honored
Jim Settele, a military assist­ant
to Donald Rumsfeld, was
the featured speaker at the St.
Paul’s UCC Veterans Day
Breakfast last Sunday. Some
local veterans recall their days
in the service and more in
Kathryn Shreiner’s column on
Page 13.
□ Sports
Hershey Heartbreak
A magnificent streak came to
an end Saturday for the War­wick
High School girls field
hockey team, as they fell short
in their bid for a third consec­utive
state title, losing to Her­shey
1-0 in the quarterfinals.
Page 21.
□ Index
Arts/Entertainment.............. ...16
Births............................................11
Business...............................14-15
Classified................ 26-29
Commentary/Letters..............4-5
Obituaries.............. 8
Out of the Past....................17,19
Police/Fire Log ....................... 2
Religion................... 12-13
School News......... ...................6-7
Social...................... 10-11
Sports...................... 21-24
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L ititz fa c e s d r o u g h t w a rn in g
Water conservation urged here; Warwick, Elizabeth twps. issue burning bans
RICHARD REITZ
Record Express Editor
LITITZ — As drought conditions worsen
in Lancaster County and across Pennsylva­nia,
local municipalities are urging residents
to step up water conservation efforts before
supplies reach dangerously low levels.
Also, the dry conditions have prompted
both Warwick Township and Elizabeth
Township to issue burning bans for all resi­dents.
On Nov. 6, a drought warning was issued
by the state for Lancaster County and eight
other counties. The state is requesting resi­dents
in those counties reduce water usage
by 15 percent. Prior to that time, a drought
watch had been in effect, which requests a 5
percent reduction in water usage.
Although rainfall has been well below the
normal levels this fall, Warwick Township
Manager Daniel Zimmerman said the local
water situation is not dire at this point — but
he added that preventative conservation
would be helpful if the water tables continue
to fall with prolonged dry spells.
“If everybody reduces just a little bit now,
it can prevent more drastic steps in the fu­ture,”
he said. “We want to be prepared if
this drought is prolonged.”
Carl Kline, Lititz Borough Water Plant
manager, issued a similar announcement for
borough residents.
“The borough wants everyone to know
that the well levels are sufficient to meet all
the needs of the residents; however, they
want to warn everyone to continued conser­vation
would help, should the drought con­tinue,”
he said.
While the borough is not in immediate
danger of running out of water, he recom­mends
common sense approach to water
usage; from limiting running faucets, to
checking for leaks. And avoid unnecessary
water usage like watering lawns. -
The region has only received about 2.5
inches of rainfall in the past 30 days, accord­ing
to a statement from the Warwick Town­ship
Municipal Authority (WTMA). The
precipitation average is about 11 inches
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2002 budgets
Roads & rec plans top
Warwick budget goals
RICHARD REITZ
Record Express Editor
WARWICK TWP. — Once
again, Warwick Township officials
have big plans to improve recrea­tion
facilities and local roadways in
the coming year.
And once again, they plan to do
it without an increase in property
taxes on residents.
Warwick supervisors reviewed a
draft of their 2002 fiscal budget at
a meeting held early on Nov. 9.
The budget, set at $2,902,342, is
about one percent higher than the
current budget.
Officials expect to raise that
amount of funding while maintain­ing
the current 2 mill tax on real
estate. It will mark the 12th con­secutive
year that the township has
not raised property taxes for resi­dents.
The budget covers the town­ship’s
general operation costs, in­cluding
the police department, ad­ministrative
staff salaries and
township maintenance. The budget
also sets specific goals and objec­tives
for the coming year.
Two significant recreation plans
are targeted for completion in
2002, including improvements to
the Forney Field tract, which was
recently acquired by the township.
Township Manager Daniel Zim­merman
said they will begin to
prepare the tract for public use,
providing additional parking in
order to accommodate the polo
field and soccer matches at the site,
which is located in Rothsville.
Also, the township plans to con­tinue
its work on community trails,
and will extend the Lititz-Warwick
Trail way — which currently
stretches from the township build­ing
on Clay Road to Oak Street —
into the Riparian Park, located at
the Clay Road-Rothsville Road in­tersection.
Also, the township expects to
implement recommendations from
the regional comprehensive recrea­tion
study when it is completed
and adopted.
Zimmerman said that agricul­tural
preservation efforts in the
township will continue. Warwick
has been preserving an average of
two farms every year.
He also anticipates that the
township will begin to sell several
transferable development rights, or
TDRs, to projects within the
newly-established Campus Indus­trial
District in the southwestern
section of the township.
TDRs exchange development
rights from agricultural areas in
other parts of the township to
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Photos by Kathy Blankenbiller
This Lititz family admires one of the entries in the chemistry and art contest sponsored by Pfizer.
Pictured are Hiroshi Ohkubo, dad; Kumiko Ohkubo, mom; Sota Ohkubo, 14, one of the young artists
in the contest; and Ryoya Ohkubo, 10.
Art & science unite
with fantastic results
Elizabeth Township budget
earmarks $110,000 for roads
STEPHEN SEEBER
Record Express Staff
BRICKERVILLE — Elizabeth
Township has a proposed 2002
budget and it appears to be a defi­cit
buster.
On Monday the township super­visors
voted unanimously to ap­prove
a proposed budget that
would weigh heavily on road work,
about $110,000 worth.
That’s a “big chunk of the ex­penditures,”
according to township
manager Rita Snavely, who point­ed
out that Elizabeth has 32 miles
of township-owned and 26 miles of
state-owned roads to maintain.
If the budget is adopted at the
next meeting (Dec. 10, 7 p.m.) esti­mated
revenue will beat out esti- Candy
secrets
Lititz Library will
host Regennas demo
KATHY BLANKENBILLER
mated expenditures by $3,000 —
$497,000 to $494,000 respectively.
Factor in a $1 million carryover
from 2001, and this year’s deficit
spending is history.
The issue of deficit spending was
raised during the recent general
election campaign, in which in­cumbent
supervisor Rodney May
(R) faced a rare Democratic oppo­nent,
Greg Gilligan.
During his campaign, Gilligan
criticized the current administra­tion’s
spending habits, predicting
that the township could conceiv­ably
go bankrupt within 14 years.
The supervisors dismissed the
assertion of financial chaos as a
sensational political ad, even
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KATHY BLANKENBILLER
Record Express Staff
LITITZ — Science collided with
art at the Lititz Community Center
last week, and the reaction to the
experiment was magnificent.
A cooperative effort between the
Warwick School District, the
Southeastern Pennsylvania Section
of the American Chemical Society
(SEPSACS) and the Pfizer Sci Pfi
Team resulted in an art contest
open to all sixth, seventh and
eighth grade students in the War­wick
School District.
The contest was held in support
of National Chemistry Week, Nov.
4-10, which was designed as a time
for chemists to raise awareness of
the positive benefits that the study
of chemistry and the chemical in­dustry
has had on our everyday
lives.
Pfizer Plant Manager Sharon
Timis brought the importance of
science education and chemical re­search
into focus as she explained
This clay piece, titled “Chem­ical
Reaction,” was created by
sixth grader Zach Stork.
impressive statistics.
“Everything we do at Pfizer im­pacts
on peoples’ health, their pets
or their livestock,” she said. “Life
is our life’s work. Our company
spends approximately $5 billion
per year researching new drugs; for
every 100 compounds that may
have a potential to be a new drug,
only one is a success.”
Students used the premise, “Cel­ebrating
Chemistry and Art,” as
the subject of their art projects.
Each grade had a different focus
on how the contest was conducted
and was given the opportunity to
decide the type of artwork that
would be submitted.
While the contest was a manda­tory
assignment for the sixth and
eighth grade students, it was not
mandatory for the seventh grade
students. Over 800 submissions of
posters, collages, drawings, sculp­ture,
photography and poetry were
received.
One poster from the eighth
grade entries will be chosen to be
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Record Express Staff
LITITZ — Erik Snyder, owner
and manager of the Regennas
Candy Store at 120 W. Lemon St.
(rear) in Lititz, will be offering a
unique, never before offered, “be­hind
the scenes” look at the mak­ing
of a beautiful and delicious
hard candy known as “clear toy
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Wise investment
Report says Warwick schools score high
academically, & at a relatively low cost
RICHARD REITZ
Regennas Candy Store owner Erik Snyder will demonstrate
candy making techniques at a special program at the Lititz Public
Library on Monday.
Record Express Editor
LITITZ — Warwick School Dis­trict
taxpayers are getting a very
favorable return on their invest­ment
in the education of local
youth, according to a statewide re­port
released recently.
“Relative to other school dis­tricts
in Pennsylvania, Warwick
School District produces more
above-average student results, with
comparatively low spending,”
according to the report issued by
Standard & Poor’s School Evalua­tion
System.
Based on its calculations, only
8.8 percent of all 501 school dis­tricts
in Pennsylvania scored high­er
in the Standard & Poor’s per­formance
cost index, which
establishes a relationship between
school district spending and aca­demic
results.
Dr. Steve Iovino, superinten­dent,
was pleased with the findings
of the study.
“It shows we are getting a very
favorable return on resources, and
spending money wisely,” he said.
“We are producing results in a
cost-effective, efficient manner.”
The evaluation looked at the dis-
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