79 Py edd a 0p 0 OO SN -_n ml lth Sal > St) Sth: Tl) Yup Te Te LP . a TUE. gy HE fly. SYR CALL IN NEWS.....to Hazel Baker [Marietta] 426-3643 Cherie Dillow [Mount Joy] 653-1609 The Susquehanna Times 426-2212 or 653-8383 SUSQ Vol. 79, No. 34, August 29, 1979 RALPH M SNYDER ReDy. 2 Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA. BOX 3040 MOUNT JOY, PA, 7.17552 UEHANNA TIMES FIFTEEN CENTS Randy Rannels Randy Rannels brings bicycle motocross here The latest fad in East Donegal Township is racing bicycle motocrosses. What’s that? A bicycle motocross is a bicycle with small heavy duty wheels that give the cyclist great control over rough terrain. The bicycles have hand brakes operating on the rims, like ten-speeds, but there is only one gear ratio on the bicycle motcross, 44-16. The idea of bicycle motocrosses was introduced into East Donegal by Randy Rannels, who moved to Rowenna from Williamsport last October. He got ‘‘hooked’’ on these vehicles last September when he attended a race at State College. he started ‘‘Baja- ing around’ on cross-count- ry racing courses and motorcycle trails. He came in fifth at State College. He was second at Easton this spring in the novice class and ninth in the intermedi- ate class at Vineland, N.J. Last weekend he placed first in his class. Obviously, he has improved rapidly since first becoming interested a year ago. Randy has also gotten other local youths interested in the new sport: Don and Nick Reich, Jeff Eby, Tony Houseal, and Mike Fergus- on. The Reich’s father, Jay Reich, has donated land near his garage and chicken hatching plant for a track. The track will circle back, a total of 900 feet, and will include a number of jumps as well as heavily banked turns. The enthusiasts for the new sport have one sponsor already, National Hyfiron, Inc., of East Petersburg, but they need more sponsors. Right now they need someone with a dozer with a blade or bucket to work on their track. As they get underway, they will need sponsors for trophies and also for signboards along the track. [continued on page 3] Rev. Roger 0. Colvin preaches sermon favoring Creekside apartments for poor Several sundays ago, after the people of Mount Joy had turned out at two meetings to voice what seemed to be their unani- mous opposition to Creek- side, the proposed new apartment complex for fam- ilies with low and moderate incomes, a local pastor spoke up in favor of Creekside in his sermon. The Rev. Roger Colvin preached at St. Mark's United Methodist Church on the subject of personal identity: who am 1? His important point was that a Christian knows himself by his relationship to God, but he noted that many people in our society identify them- selves in terms of their possesions. For example, some people think, “I am who I am by the kind of car I drive.” Some people define them- selves in terms of the property they own. Rev. Colvin said he could under- stand why people who do this would feel threatened by the possibility of apart- ments for low income families nearby, which they fear’ might lower their property values. Rev. Colvin said they are not really worried about their possible loss of property value, but about their possible loss of their selves. They think: “‘I am a building, I am a property, I am worth so much, and I don’t want to be worth less.” Rev. Colvin concluded his sermon: ‘“No one wants the kind of ghetto climate that exists in many of our large cities, yet we want to confine low income housing to such places. We live in a kind of society where there are going to be people at the top and people at the bottom, and the myth that anyone can make it with hard work just isn’t true. “It doesn’t matter if it is at Creekside or elsewhere, the response may be the same. And don’t say I don’t know, because I have lived among the poor and next to low income housing, and I am still alive. ‘““But what I am looking for is some kind of Christian response and concern. Lower income people do not have to be worse than the rest of us. It is largely what we make them. Reject and resist them, and they feel the need to retaliate. Accept them and make them part of the community, and there ‘is no need to fight back. “They do not lower property values, we do. We say property is worth less. Do we not worry about what we have to lose? Maybe there is something to be gained. When we can stop measuring ourselves by what we have and begin to see that who we are is [continued on page 2] 3 Rev. Roger 0. Colvin Charles Patterson says U.S. might cut funds Creekside apartments if Mount Joy rejects Last week Charles K. Patterson, executive direct- or of the Lancaster County Redevelopment and Hous- ing Authorities, finally came out and said what a good many local people had been fearing: that if Mount Joy residents continued to op- pose Creekside, the prposed new apartments for low income . families in Mount Joy—the federal govern- ment could and very well might cut off other federal money being used to improve the community. Patterson was one of the speakers a couple weeks «go, who presented the case for Creekside to Mount Joy residents at Beahm Junior High School. The reactions of the residents were all antagon- istic to the proposed apart- ments. Statistics assmbled by Patterson were question- ed for their validity. Some- one remarked, Figures don’t lie but liars figure.”” That remark was typical of many thrown at Mr. Patterson and his fellow proponents. An informed source said that Patterson was bitter about the reactions of the audi- ence. One resident of Mount Joy told the Times, ‘‘I knew «nis was coming. You take money from the federal government; you lose con- trol over your own communi- ty.” No trucking terminal on 230 east of Mt. Joy; too much noise, traffic The Mount Joy Borough Zoning Hearing Board voted against granting a variance for a large trucking terminal to be built on Route 230 east of Mount Joy. The board refused to grant the request for the variance because of probab- le noise, traffic and drainage problems the terminal might have caused.
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