Lancaster District Awards
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Youth Conservation
School, Other Awards
Charlotte Sprenkle, environ
mental education coordinator
for the district, presented a skit
honoring Bob Good, Lititz,
noted angler, with a special
Youth Conservation School
honor.
L. Nevin Greiner, resource
conservationist in the erosion
and sedimentation division, pre
sented a Building Industry Con
servation Award to Michael
Mountz, owner of Cloister Car
Wash and Lube, for new con
struction on Manheim Pike In
Lancaster.
The land was formerly the site
of Kerek Air Freight and is
home to Cloister’s third car
wash. The award was presented
to recognize individuals credited
with “conserving Lancaster
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Greiner noted that develop
ment in Pennsylvania has
proven to be land consumptive.
For example, during 1992-1997,
Pennsylvania developed 224,640
acres of land each year. The
state ranks second only to Texas
in the total number of acres of
land developed in the same
period.
Greiner noted in a book by
Tom Hylton that documents
since the 19505, Pennsylvania
lost four million acres of farm
land to urban sprawl a land
mass equal to the size of the
states of Connecticut and Rhode
Island. The land conversion pro
vided for only a 20 percent pop
ulation increase in those SO
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County farmland through adap
tive redevelopment,” said
Greiner,
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When Mountz purchased the
land, the lot was covered en
tirely with buildings and paving.
The design team removed a
large portion of paving and re
placed it with topsoil. Today, of
the 3.5 acres, 23 percent has
been landscaped. Stormwater is
not collected, but released
slowly.
Also, the waste oil recovered
in the lube shop is fuel for the
energy to heat the water in the
car wash.
Conservation
Service Award
Ken Meek, on the board of the
district directors, presented the
year’s Conservation Service
Award to Terry L. Kauffman.
Kauffman, who has partici
pated in the business and public
sector at various levels for more
than 25 years, has served in
leadership roles in service clubs,
on the local township zoning
hearing board, and has been in
volved on the county planning
commission. He has chaired the
election board of the Lancaster
County and the registration
commission. He has served as a
board member in the conserva
tion district from 1996-1999 and
for the county library and agri
culture systems.
Elected a county commis
sioner in 1992 and again in 1996,
Kauffman chaired the board of
commissioners from 1995-1999
and was vice chairman from
1992-1995.
Kauffman serves as director
of land use planning and man
agement with the Berks County
Conservancy.
Educator Of
Year Award
Jim and Lee Amigh are the re
cipients of this year’s Educator
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of the Year Award, presented by
Robert Lauffer, vice chairman of
the district board of directors.
Jim is a physical education
teacher for the elementary
schools of Penn Manor School
District and is certified in envi
ronmental education.
Lee is a naturalist for Lancas
ter County Parks.
Both are central figures
behind the creation of the Ele
mentary Envirothon in Lancas
ter County, Lauffer noted.
Six years ago, according to
Lauffer, Jim and Lee met with
the York County Conservation
District and observed how the
district orchestrated the Ele
mentary Envirothon. The
Amighs returned to form a com
mittee and began planning for a
local competition the following
year.
The Lancaster County Ele
mentary Envirothon began with
a handful of teams from the
iPenn Manor School District
only. Five years later the Envi
rothon involved more than 300
students during two days with
48 third through sixth grade
teams representing six school
districts.
“It’s safe to say that Jim and
Lee Amigh live and breathe the
Elementary Envirothon,” said
Lauffer.
The conservation district hon
ored Hosea Latshaw with the
Conservation Agency Service
Award.
The Natural Resource Con
servation Service (NRCS) is the
district’s closest working part
ner, noted Don Robinson, dis
trict administrator. Latshaw,
from the Lebanon area technical
office, reviews all the district
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Conservation Agency
Service Award