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LOCAL A-6 NEW ERA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1994 LOCAL DATEBOOK Sewing business hoping to expand at ex-city toy manufacturing plant by Doug Wenrich New Era Staff Writer African-American lecture at A scholar who has been called the pre-eminent African-American intellectual of our generation" will deliver a lecture at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 3, at Franklin and Marshall College's Hensel Hall. Cornel West, professor of religion and director of the Afro-American Studies Department at Princeton University, will discuss his recent book, Race Matters, at the event. West will deliver the annual Mueller lecture, addressing issues of race, difference, power and social suffering during his talk. Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.

called West the pre-eminent African-American intellectual of our generation. West graduated from Harvard magna cum laude 1973 in only three years time and then received his master's and doctorate from Princeton. Bazaar to benefit hospitalzied veterans A charity bazaar benefit for hospitalized war veterans will be held from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. March 5 at the Conestoga Elks Lodge, 452 S.

Duke St. Sponsored by the Rev. Leonard Christian, pastor of the Mission of Hope Church, the bazaar will include baked goods, art work, crafts and clothing for sale. Christian has been conducting the program for the last eight years to let veterans know they are not forgotten. Proceeds will benefit the veterans.

More than 500 trays of candy and gift packages will be distributed to them in area veterans medical centers. Donations for the veterans may also be sent in care of the Mission of Hope Church. P.O. Box 369, Bausman, PA 17504. For more information, call the church secretary at 291-6019.

thats essentially not being used and a business person looking to grow. The project will result in a more attractive building, new jobs, and should be a big plus, overall, for the neighborhood, Hoober said. Founded in 1923, Lancaster Toy Co. once was a thriving company that produced wooden and metal batons, and operated a metal-fin-ishing unit, Plating, at 524 E. Mifflin St.

The baton plant ceased production about five years ago, but Plating, which applies chrome and other metal finishes, has 14 employees and does a solid business with the region's metal firms. The baton plant once had close to 90 workers and was among the largest such firms in the country. Baton production peaked in the early 1960s at two million batons, but then began to slide. Within 15 years, production had tumbled to some 450,000 batons and the payroll was down to about 30 workers. By 1987, the company had just 15 workers at the baton plant, and ceased production shortly thereafter.

She has a small sewing business now, I think with about six workers, Ung said. Shes done sewing for many years ana really knows the business now, and she wants to expand. She is very energetic and hard-working and has plans to make her business grow and become bigger and more profitable. The three-story building is about 6,000 square feet roughly three times the size of Ms. Les current plant and includes an adjacent lot, which would be used for parking.

Ung declined to discuss the total cost of the project; the propertys asking price alone is $89,000. At the new site, Le Sewing could employ upwards of 15 or 20 workers, said Ung, if all goes well. If the request is approved and the deal moves forward, settlement could occur by the end of March, said Tom Hoober, of Town and Country Realty, who represents Nolan. This is an outstanding match, Hoober said. Youve got a very solid, brick building Where once batons were produced by the million.

Net Le plans to make shirts, skirts and other garments. Ms. Le has agreed to buy the former Lancaster Toy Co. manufacturing plant once among the nation's biggest baton producers and convert it to a garment plant, Le Sewing Co. Shell present her plans to the city zoning board on March 7, when she requests a special exception to substitute one non-conforming use for another.

(Lancaster Toy had a special exception to operate in the residential area, but the sewing company must seek another exception for the property, at 535 E. Mifflin St.) Ms. Le, of Manheim Township, runs a small sewing operation on the same Mifflin Street block, but wants to expand, said Steve Ung, a family friend and real estate agent with Century 21 Fagan Associates, who is handling negotiations with property owner Joseph P. Nolan. Manheim Twp.

fires back at builders Attorneys respond to impact fee challenge by David O'Connor New Era Staff Writer New Era Photo by Rtchord Hertzler Even with free ice, this flooded-out marina at Long Level isn't getting much business. In the distance, on the Lancaster County shore, is the seven-mile-long raft of ice causing the flooding. Franklinia tree topic of lecture Go on The Search for Benjamin Franklins Lost Tree during a lecture to be held at the North Museum Associates 18th Annual Meeting. Dr. Keith S.

Thomson, president of Philadelphias Academy of Natural Sciences, will discuss the discovery of the Franklinia, a fall flowering tree named in honor of Franklin that can be found on the campus of Franklin and Marshall College. The lecture will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 6, in Hensel Hall at A reception will be held after the talk. A brief business meeting will precede it. 5th annual MS Walk on Sunday, April 10 The Lancaster County chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is holding its fifth annual MS Walk on Sunday, April 10.

The 12 4-mile walk starts at Manor Shopping Center and winds through historic downtown Lancaster and into the surrounding suburbs. Registration forms are available at more than 500 local banks and stores or by calling 397-1481. Stroke support group meeting March 2 Stroke survivors, their family and friends are invited to attend the March meeting of the St. Joseph Hospital Stroke Support Group. The group will meet at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 2, in the Community Room of the Rehabilitation Unit on the third floor of the hospital. Parking is available in the Medical Arts Building lot on College Avenue, across from the hospitals main entrance. For more information, call 291-8383. Addicts' Support Group meetings A Christ-centered Addicts Support Group will be held at 7:30 m. on Thursdays, beginning March 3, at the Leacock Presbyterian Church in Paradise.

Persons with any type of addictive behavior, in the past or present, are welcome to attend. The group will be led by Edward Gillam. For more information call 295-1865. Vegetable appreciation class for children Converting kids into vegetable lovers, or at least help them appreciate vegetables, is the theme of four Saturday morning classes to be held in March. Designed for children aged 8-13, cost is $15 per child per session, except the last class, which is $23 and includes a guest.

Classes will be held from 10 a.m. to noon at the Rothsville Medical Center. For more information call 626-6722. Bus trip to historic Gettysburg April 6 A bus trip to historic Gettysburg will be sponsored April 6 by the Lancaster County Historical Society and the Sons of the Union Veterans. Cost for the day trip is $30 for members or $35 for non-members.

Reservations must be made by March 4. For more information, call Darlene Ger-hardt at 293-2738. Four art courses at Lititz studio Four non-credit art courses will be offered by Millersville University this spring at the Randolph Arts Studios in Lititz. The courses are: Learning to Work with Clay on the Potters Wheel, Thursdays, p.m., March 7 to April 25; Basic Calligraphy, Wednesdays, 10 a m. to 12:30 p.m., March 16-May The Write Stuff: Making Your Own Papers, Thursdays, p.m., March 17-May and The Art of Jewelry Design and Creation, Tuesdays, p.m., March 15-May 3.

To register or for more information, call the MU Office of Continuing Education at 872-3030. Touring college band at Lancaster church The Wooster Scot Symphonic Band, featuring bagpipers and highland dancers, will perform at 8 p.m. Monday, March 7, at the First Presbyterian Church, 140 E. Orange St. The 87-member band, directed by David Cleveland, is the touring band of The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio.

An offering will be taken at the performance. For details, call the church at 394-6854. Snow misses, flooding continues; another storm possible mid-week by Ad Crable New Era Staff Writer water at the end of the ice jam may continue to flood the roads near the river for days to come, he added. The compacted ice debris is the accumulated ice once 16 inches thick that stretched across the length of the Susquehanna until a few days ago. Most of the river is now ice-free.

However, a smaller ice dam and localized flooding continues on the West Branch of the river between Watsontown and Lewisburg, according to the National Weather Service River Forecast Center. Under clear skies but a blustery wind with gusts up to 40 mph, the wind chill factor today and tonight will be well below zero, according to the weather service. After a low of 10 to 15 tonight, Sunday will be sunny and brisk, with a high of only 25 to 30. Lows Monday will dip from 0 to 10, with a high no more than 20. All eyes will then turn to a snow-maker weather system expected to form in the Gulf Coast, then move up the East Coast.

It is still too early to track where the storm will hit, but the weather service warned that it could bring significant snow here. Snow all but missed Lancaster County overnight, but frigid air and flooding from dislodged ice near Washington Boro will be with us for awhile. And dont bet the show shovel on it yet, but a major snowstorm may be heading our way for midweek. Weather forecasters had called for 1 to 3 inches of new snow to be on the ground this morning, but the storm tracked farther north, leaving most areas of the county with nothing to a dusting. Flooded roads at Route 441 and Route 999 at Washington Boro and Long Level on the York County side of the river continued this morning as a seven-mile-long raft of dislodged ice remains jammed behind tne Safe Harbor Dam.

The ice did not move through flood gates at the dam as hoped, and the gates will be closed today, said Terry Kreider, a hydro coordinator with Safe Harbor Water Power Corp. Fortunately, river flow is moving through the ice and actually falling, eliminating the threat of more extensive flooding, he said. But backed-up The builders organization challenging Manheim Townships impact fees in court doesnt actually pay the fees and is legally off-base. And, the Building Industry Association of Lancaster County did not follow the right appeal process when it filed its suit last fall in county court. Those are the two main arguments lodged by Manheim Township attorneys in court pleadings filed in response to a suit by the BIA, which is asking that the municipalitys impact fees be declared invalid.

The builders, in their early arguments, maintain that Manheim Townships fees are almost 10 times what state law allows. The township charges about $2,200 for each new residential unit, while the builders say the fee should be about $250. Also, when the township did a 10-year projection of road needs to accompany its impact fee ordinance, it erred by including past growth in the figures, says Loudon Campbell, an attorney for the building association. The township and the builders filed their documents recently with county Common Pleas Court and are expected to file more in coming weeks. If the case reaches court, oral arguments could be heard by spring, officials predict.

A main point the township wants to make, according to its attorney William Crosswell, is that legally the issue is not whether (the builders group) members have paid their fees, but whether the BIA itself has paid the fees. The governing state code, Crosswell points out, only gives the right of appeal to someone who has to pay the fee, while the BIA is a corporation separate and distinct from its members. Crosswell adds that the township believes it has numerous legal grounds on which the court will be asked to dismiss the complaint, although it has not yet done so. Impact fees are allowed by a state law enacted almost three years ago to help communities by assessing developers for additional traffic their projects create. BIA attorney Campbell says only one hour of the day be used in determining trips generated by a new house, usually the evening rush hour.

But, he maintains, the township based its formula on total trips during the entire 24-hour day, leading to the fees that the builders say are 10 times as high. They completely defeat the intent of the law by multiplying the cost at too high a figure, Campbell says, adding that its pretty simple any junior-high student could tell you the figures are off. This past falls lawsuit represents the start of a second round of court battles over impact fees. Last summer, state Commonwealth Court ruled that impact fees in Cranberry Township, Butler County, were invalid. Ol ficials have said its unclear how that applies to Manheim Township, the only other Pennsylvania municipality to impose impact fees before they were validated by state law.

Manheim Township passed its first impact fee law in February 1989, and it passed a subsequent ordinance in late 1991 based on the state act. Rape case shown on TV sent to court Daniel Pineda was ordered to stand trial Friday on a charge that he raped a 13-year-old girl two years ago at knifepoint after spraying her in the face with Mace. Pineda, 20, disappeared after the incident in November 1991 and was located only recently in Puerto Rico. The incident was featured on a syndicated television police show Jan. 12, just hours after Pineda was discovered and arrested.

District Justice Louise B. Williams ordered Pineda to stand trial in Lancaster County Court on charges of rape, statutory rape, aggravated indecent assault, corruption of minors and unlawful restraint. The girl, now 15, said she developed a friendship with Pineda after meeting him at church. She broke off the relationship after learning how much older he was. Pineda, angered at her decision, stopped her while she was walking home from school on Downtown gift, card shop closes today Darmstaetters, part of the downtown retail community for 89 years, closed its doors for the last time today.

The cards, gifts and lottery tickets store at 32 N. Queen St. was owned by A. Gregory Seropi-an since December 1991. The business dates to 1905 when the late Rev.

Jacob Darm-staetter bought the Lancaster Photographic Store at 23 E. Orange St. It has been located in the first block of North Queen Street since 1917, but the Darmstaetter family has been out of the business since 1977. Once a department store, the historic business was the first in Lancaster to sell greeting cards and was among the first Eastman Kodak dealers in America. Barbara Seropian, mother of the owner, said the store closed because the family is leaving Lancaster and was unable to find a buyer.

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