page_xvi < previous page page_xvi next page > Page xvi development is approved by a 3-0 vote. Afterward, Robert Anderson shoves Ivan Zimmerman while a local television station films the moment. April 27: An alternative site is found for Garden Spot Village. Sewer line arrangements have yet to be worked out. June 7: Five Mill Creek Valley farmers work out an arrangement through Alan Musselman of the Lancaster Farmland Trust for a limited direct sewage line across their farms for Garden Spot Village. Supervisors reject a direct line and route sewer lines circuitously along township roads instead. July: Letters to the editor repeatedly call the actions of Earl Township supervisors into question. August 12: Christian Eaby, with the assistance of several residents, fires off the first of three letters calling for investigation of supervisors' actions, especially those of Chairman Jack Buch. September 27: Two male police officers frisk two dozen Earl Township women and men, including Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonites, with metal detectors as they arrive for a township meeting. November: Earl Township Farmland Preservation Trust candidate Tim Shay is defeated by Fred Wisler (formerly of Earl Township's Sewer and Water Authority) for the slot left vacant by Supervisor Lee Lowry's retirement. 1994 March 11: Earl Township's controversial Act 537 plan is approved. Its protected "non-service" area does not include the Eberly farm. Late Spring: Christian Eaby accompanies a special agent sent by the state Attorney General's Office on three separate occasions to investigate allegations of violation of Plain Sect people's civil rights. No follow-up by Lancaster County District Attorney's Office. November 29: Ground broken for Garden Spot Village. 1995 Spring: Sewer pipes are dumped along Earl Township roads, causing a number of horses pulling buggies to shy. Dynamite is used while laying sewer lines for Garden Spot Village without advance notification of Mill Creek Valley residents. April 5: Special Agent Johnson from the state Office of the Attorney General's Civil Rights Enforcement Section writes Lancaster County district attorney's office "to bring these allegations to your attention." Â < previous page page_xvi next page >