Columbia bids fond farewell to Meiskey

LANCASTERONLINE
Columbia Borough Manager Norman Meiskey received a fond farewell from council on Tuesday during a committee meeting.

All borough officials and a small handful of guests extended thanks and applause as Michael Beury, council president, presented Meiskey with a certificate of appreciation.

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http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/854969_Columbia-bids-fond-farewell-to-Meiskey.html

Feds will build Pennsylvania health insurance exchange, but will the uninsured come?

PENNLIVE
Love it or hate it, a big part of the Affordable Care Act -- Obamacare to many -- is coming to Pennsylvania.

A new online health insurance marketplace, called an exchange, is scheduled to open for business Oct. 1.

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http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/05/exchange_corbett_obama_afforda.html#incart_m-rpt-2

Wrightsville memorializes sacrifice with parade, ceremony

YORK DISPATCH
Clusters of families lined Hellam Street in Wrightsville for the town's Memorial Day parade. Children spun pinwheels and cheered at the passing hot rods, fire engines and bands.

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http://www.yorkdispatch.com/ci_23331655/wrightsville-memorializes-sacrifice-parade-ceremony

Memorial Day 2013

Columbians showed their patriotism this Memorial Day by displaying American flags, specifically on the 800 block of Plane Street - and on the 100 block of South Sixth Street, as pictured above.

 Unfortunately, some folks did not obtain new flags and continued to fly worn ones that should have been disposed of in a dignified manner, as shown above at a local residence . . .

and here, in front of a local business.

Fanfare for the Common Man

A Fanfare for the Common Man Aaron Copland

(1900-1990)

Shortly after the beginning of World War II, Cincinnati Orchestra conductor Eugene 

Goosens requested patriotic fanfares from eighteen American composers for performance during 

the orchestra's 1942-43 concert season. Each concert opened with one of these fanfares designed, 

as Goosens envisioned, to boost morale for the war effort. Amongst the composers who 

answered Goosens’ call were notable American musicians like Morton Gould, Howard Hanson, 

Darius Milhaud, Walter Piston, Virgil Thomson, and Aaron Copland. Of the eighteen, the ten 

fanfares composed for brass and percussion alone were selected for publication.

Copland’s fanfare was performed for the first time on the March 14, 1943 concert. Along 

with the composition, each composer had been requested to supply his own title. Asked many 

years later about the selection of his title, Copland responded, “I sort of remember how I got the 

idea of writing A Fanfare for the Common Man – it was the common man, after all, who was 

doing all the dirty work in the war and the army. He deserved a fanfare.”

Open Records chief flunks Pa. charter schools

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) -
The head of Pennsylvania's Office of Open Records gives charter schools failing grades when the subject is compliance with the Right-To-Know Law.

"The number one violators are charter schools," said Executive Director Terry Mutchler.

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http://www.abc27.com/story/22399817/open-records-chief-flunks-pa-charter-schools

Columbia Native Dean Young Named 2014 Texas State Poet Laureate

KNOW
Dean Young, professor of English, is the 2014 Texas Poet Laureate, one of four posts held by Texas artists annually. The appointees for 2013 and 2014 were selected by a legislative-appointed committee for the exceptional quality of their work and for their outstanding commitment to the arts in Texas.

Recognized nationally as one of the most energetic, influential poets writing today, Young holds the William Livingston Chair of Poetry at the University of Texas-Austin. He has published 12 books of poetry and one volume of prose on the aesthetics of poetry. He has also received numerous awards and honors for his poetry, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Levinson Prize, the Colorado Poetry Prize, a Wallace E. Stegner Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems are regularly selected for the Best American Poetry annual series.

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http://www.utexas.edu/know/2013/04/26/dean-young-named-2014-texas-state-poet-laureate/