Intelligencer Journal from Lancaster, Pennsylvania • 77

Intelligencer Journal Obituaries Television Business South Lancaster County Edition News of Strasburg, Quarryville and Christiana TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2007, LANCASTER, PA. W. Lampeter board hears fly woes Residents from Lampeter Square development complain about infestation seek help BY JAMES BUESCHER Intelligencer Journal Correspondent Exactly a year and a day after Strasburg Township residents came forward with complaints about a fly infestation that turned clear windows black, residents in nearby West Lampeter Township have taken the same issue before their local leaders. West Lampeters elected officials, said Monday. Weve had this problem before at my house, but not this year.

The problem, it seems, migrates, he said. About a dozen residents from the Lampeter Square housing development in Lampeter brought a box containing a strip coated with the winged insects, many of which were still alive and wriggling. I have more than 20 of these however, are saying their hands are tied by state regulations, and the only option left for the residents is to contact the Lancaster County Conservation District, a division of state government overseeing conservation work within the county. Im awful sorry about this but, really, under the rules set forth by the state, theres not anything we can do on a municipal level, West Lampeter Township supervisor Barry Hershey strips at my house, and without exaggeration, I am literally catching thousands of flies every day. I dont know whats causing the problem, but cant we try and find some kind of solution? said Lampeter Square resident Matt Shockey, who attended the meeting with his wife, Tina.

There are flies landing on my familys food, there are flies on my Please see FLY, page B5 The trees should hug her Local arboretum honors dedicated volunteer LT looks to protect historic buildings BY JENNIFER TODD Intelligencer Journal Staff Lancaster Township property owners will now have to go through a review process before they can get demolition permits, a regulation designed to preserve historic or other significant structures. Lancaster Township supervisors voted Monday to enact a zoning ordinance designed to encourage the preservation of historic and other significant structures in the municipality. Under the ordinance, any request to demolish a structure, whether entirely or partially, Members of the historical commission conducted a door-to-door must go through a mandatory review process before a demolition permit can be issued. If the township Deb Grove Intelligencer Journal Chris Longenecker, left, and Mike Ervin stand in front of blooming lilac trees at Tanger Arboretum. survey and have feels demolition of the property Bus cuts would leave many on road to nowhere The Willow Street bus is not a frill.

Thirty-year-old Nathaniel Schick of East Clay Street depends on it to get to Willow Valley, where hes a cook, and Steve Brown, 48, of Willow Street, takes it twice a week into town to socialize in a mental-health program that he says helps keep us out of the hospital. The Lititz bus is not a frill. I rely on the bus to get to work and to get home, said Robin Hadley, 45, of South Prince Street, a dietary assistant at Lancashire Hall. Marina ONeill, 25, of Lititz, a student and mother, rides the bus to class and to get her son to day care. Jim Benner rides the Lititz bus to his job at Susquehanna Association for the Blind.

Likewise, 18-year-old Trenton Tbalton of Manor Street needs the bus to get to work at Lancashire Hall. Local buses are not frills. They are a vital community asset, and the taxes supporting them help people be self-sufficient contributors to society. Which raises a question: Why is there talk of eliminating bus routes? Penalizing workers Id be out of a job, Toalton said of the prospect of his bus disappearing. I might have to get a new job, Schick said.

Basically, Id have to walk everywhere, ONeill said. Red Rose Transit Authority plans to operate all 16 of its routes through the end of the year. But after that, a million-dollar funding shortfall might force it to eliminate six of its less-traveled routes. That means no more buses to Willow Street, Lititz, Lancaster Township, Grandview Heights, Intercourse and Elizabethtown. RRTA also might make partial cuts on the Ephrata route and end the downtown trolley shuttle.

The service reductions might happen on top of a 7.5 percent fare increase that would raise the base fare by a dime to $1.35. The higher fares might start in July. The result? Working men and women, employers, the elderly and people with disabilities would face new hardships. Seventy-eight percent of RRTAs riders have no transportation alternative, the authority says, and half of its riders take a bus to work. Cutting back on mass transit could hurt the local economy and swell welfare rolls.

And if some former bus riders are able to turn to cars, the additional autos on the road would add to congestion, air pollution and demand for foreign oil. A rational society would be looking for ways to get more people on buses, not fewer. Instead, the Bush administration has been cutting funding for mass transit. Meanwhile, state funding has failed to keep pace with inflation at a time of soaring fuel prices and ever-rising health insurance premiums. Political deadlock The county commissioners have stepped forward with several hundred thousand dollars of extra funding.

And its not unreasonable to start asking municipalities served by the buses on the chopping block to chip in a few dollars. But a permanent solution offering adequate, reliable funding is needed. What were getting in Harrisburg is politics as usual. Gov. Ed Rendells solution is a tax on oil company profits.

Opponents say the tax would result in higher gasoline prices, but they arent offering an alternative. This governor is not beating up on oil companies. Hes beating up on consumers," said Rep. Stan Saylor, a Republican who represents rural parts of York County, where almost everyone drives. But when Saylor cooled down, he told me this: "Lets be honest.

If there was a referendum in Pennsylvania, there would be no mass transit. I dont think thats right, either. So the governor and rural lawmakers such as Saylor share common ground. They agree buses arent a frill. And the people who ride them arent superfluous.

E-mail: jhawkeslnimcws.cott). cataloged and classified all 4,000 structures in the township. would be detrimental to the community, officials will encourage the property owner to explore other options, such as renovating the structure. If those efforts fail, the ordinance gives the township the authority to deny a permit at the conclusion of the review. We are a very history-wealthy community, and we need to do what BY MADELYN PENNINO Intelligencer Journal Staff Chris Longenecker, a volunteer at Louise Arnold Tanger Arboretum, enjoys sharing her love of trees.

Thats one of the reasons she recently was honored as the arboretums steppingstone volunteer of the year. Longenecker, of Lancaster, has been a volunteer at the arboretum for six years. I just love trees and want to spread the word to people that the arboretum is here, Longenecker said. She was rewarded with an engraved rock and cherry-wood hand-turned plate at the arboretums annual banquet April 16. the Tanger Arboretum was formed by the trustees of the historical society to generate support for and public interest in the maintenance of the arboretum.

Today there are more than 104 species of trees growing on the arboretums 5 acres. Mike Ervin, of Friends of the Thnger Arboretum, said Longenecker has been a great asset. Shes dedicated to maintaining this arboretum and is the first one here when there is an event going on, he said. Ervin said he, too, hopes more people will take advantage of the arboretum. Some people dont know its even here, Ervin said.

If they knew how beautiful it is, more people would visit. Longenecker has served as a member of Friends of the Louise Arnold Tanger Arboretum Board of Trustees and also as board secretary. She leads the arboretums planning committee and helps perform minor maintenance such as raking leaves around the arboretum, which is on the grounds of Lancaster County Historical Society, 230 N. President Ave. She said her greatest hope for the arboretum is that more people will visit and enjoy its trees.

Its such a wonderful place to get to know trees, she said. Its so peaceful and beautiful. Louise Tanger undertook the planning and development of the grounds in 1956. About 15 years ago, Friends of Please see LT, page B2 The stage is the star in Inherit the Wind BY SUSAN E. LINDT Intelligencer Journal Staff State leaders tour Wengers Feed Mill Rheems operation helping to reduce reliance on traditional fuel sources Perhaps staged conflict is easier to enjoy than the real thing.

When the creationevolution debate played out right here in Lancaster County, I dont recall laughing much, except with REVIEW: the worst sense of irony. But Theater of The at6 1 the Seventh Sisters Inherit the Wind makes the debate County drug task force to host auction BY P.J. REILLY Intelligencer Journal Staff Vehicles, stereos, jewelry and more will be on the auction block Saturday. The 17th annual Lancaster County Drug Task Force auction is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. in the Central Park maintenance building at 950 Es-helman Mill Road.

The doors will open at 9 a.m. so people can inspect the items to be auctioned. Vehicles will be auctioned beginning at 1 p.m. According to a drug task force spokesman, the items up for sale were seized during drug investigations in the county. We are allowed to seize property and assets we can show were bought with drug proceeds, said the spokesman, who declined to give his name.

State law then allows the district attorney's office to sell that property, with the stipulation all proceeds must be used to fund future drug investigations. The spokesman said the I ancaster County task force typically raises Please see AUCTION, page B2 funny, fast-paced and even a hoot. Play wrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lees dramatic take on the real 1925 Scopes monkey trial pits evolutionists against creationists in the Tennessee town of Hillsboro. If youve seen the kind-of-dry, kind-of-too-long 1960 film version of Inherit the Wind starring Spencer TV-acy and Gene Kelly, you might think youve seen enough. But the stage play is significantly tighter and more crisp, heavy on humor, light on sentimentality and sticking to the point of the debate with just the right number of words.

Foremost in TSS' production is director Lydia Brubakers clever staging: putting the stage in the middle of the theater with the audience on either side, like a basketball court with actors moving from end to end. At one end of the stage is a simple courtroom set; on the other is Ifills- BY PATRICK BURNS Intelligencer Journal Stuff Weary of exorbitant trucking costs, Wengers Feed Mill Inc. last year decided to end shipments from the Midwest of a vital soybean ingredient that is added to its premium meal. Wengers instead opened its own expelled soybean plant at 271 1 Ieisey Quarry Road in Rheems last April, a move that cut shipping costs and provided the bonus of a soybean oil byproduct that is processed into biodiesel. Its interesting that some of the soy oil produced at the plant could come back into the trucks that we haul feed with our trucks use a soy biodiesel B5 blend, Cher M.

Rineer, Wengers spokeswoman, said. Wengers, a major supplier of poultry and swine feed to the mid-Atlantic states, got the attention of Gov. Ed. Rendells Energy Independence Strategy, which is designed to cut reliance on imported liquid fuels. Wengers Feed Mill Inc.

Quick facts: 4 Processes 20,000 bushels of soybeans per week 4 Produces 100-150 tons of expelled soybean meal a day 4 Produces 20,000 gallons of soy oil a week refined for biodiesel or food-grade processing 4 Repurchases B5 biodiesel blend that Is used in Its fleet of bulk feed-delivery trucks Dsn Morns Intelligencer Journal State Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen A. McGinty and Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff toured the plant Monday. McGinty said the plant is an example of how farmers and agribusinesses can turn challenges into economic opportuni- Please see TOUR, page B2 Please see REVIEW, page B2 i.