About Town - August 6, 2023

 This week's photos of Columbia

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Habitat for Humanity's Women Build Week Day 4 wrapped on Friday. These photos at South 5th Street are from earlier in the week. By the end of the week, a second floor had been added.

Emergency personnel effected a rescue last Sunday when they transported a patient down a precarious set of steps at 4th & Walnut.

Sidewalk wisdom

"We must do what is right, not what is easy"

Bullet hole on the windshield of a parked car near the intersection of South 3rd & Cherry, which was hit during the Saturday afternoon "shots fired" incident there. Alarmingly, a second incident was reported early Sunday morning. Today, many Columbians are on edge, afraid to sit out, wondering what can be done about the problem. There's still no public statement from the mayor.

Four police departments responded to the Saturday afternoon incident.

A moving graffiti gallery down at the tracks rolls by daily

Strangely enough, State Representative Brett Miller voted against a bipartisan bill that would create a database of hazardous material being transported through the state on railways.

Trains carrying who-knows-what often speed through Columbia.

Up close and personal with a moving train near 2nd & Mill

(There's no barricade or warning lights there.)

Sunday, August 13

Ice cream at Columbia River Park on Saturday

Meanwhile, at Rail Mechanical

Old style means of transportation, just add horse

Time for a new sign?

An orca-shaped plane flying over

A bag of flags at the Used Flag Deposit at the Elks

Even a hearse needs maintenance sometimes.

They don't seem as bad this year.

A look down Walnut Street, from 3rd

This sight will be a thing of the past when it becomes one-way.

More work is being done on that fancy door at the Columbia School of Music.

Walk in love today!

Civil War Trail sign on the first block of North 3rd

Until next week . . .