About Town - April 23, 2023

This week's photos of Columbia

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Over 30 volunteers honored the fallen at Mount Bethel Cemetery on Saturday, April 22, by cleaning veterans' headstones. Almost 700 veterans from the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War are buried there.

Shown above are volunteers for the event.

Ryan Sexton, veteran and cemetery superintendent, organized the event. Sexton is also a Columbia School Board director.

Sexton showed volunteers the proper procedure for cleaning headstones.

A few of the Democratic candidates for Columbia School Board cleaned several headstones, including - appropriately enough - this one memorializing former Columbia School Superintendent Samuel Harper Hoffman. Hoffman was school superintendent from 1887 to 1889 and was also a military veteran.

Candidates, left to right, are Lauren VonStetten, Kathleen Hohenadel, Charles Leader, and Christine Misciagna.

State Representative Brett Miller, left, cleaned a headstone with Columbia School Board President Charles Leader.

Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons, right, and his two sons undertook this cleaning job as Brett Miller addressed the other side. 

Mount Bethel Board President Jane Moore checked the numbers.

Flag girls provided new flags for finished headstones.

Volunteers worked for several hours and cleaned about 70 headstones . . .

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This restored vintage Ford was parked at Columbia River Park on Thursday.

The guy on the left said he thought it's a 1932 model.

Two Hometown Heroes

Luminescence Medical Esthetics on the 500 block of Locust

An old piece tooling through

Artist Stacia Hummel continued restoring the entrance of the Columbia School of Music at 401 Walnut Street this past week.

A few more artists were hanging around town this week.

The Christian Flag and the U.S. Flag

A diver was employed to check an issue at the Columbia Water Company's intake project on a cold and overcast Tuesday.

Despite all the commotion, this bird stood his ground and didn't budge.

Detail of a mausoleum at Mount Bethel

Signs are not to be posted at the Veterans Memorial Bridge plaza. 

Still waiting for that upcoming bridge fix

This Batmobile-looking 3-wheeler rolled through Columbia River Park Thursday.

Work continues on the former Subway store at 149 North 3rd, which is being turned into a convenience store, according to borough documents.

Waving in the wind

At Locust Street Park is the backstory of Columbia.

There are those who stand out in a crowd.

When a horse head becomes a flag pole holder

Heavy equipment has been moved to the site of the former Columbia Drive-in. Here's what's supposed to be going in there:

"A planned development that will include 18,000 square feet of retail space, a 3,000 square foot restaurant, a 3,500 square foot bank, 163 mid-rise apartments, and 9 low-rise townhomes, according to West Hempfield Township Planning Commission meeting minutes of May 16, 2019. The project was also discussed at the February 2, 2021 and October 5, 2021 West Hempfield Township Supervisors' meetings."