Memorial Day Celebration May 29, 2016 (Photo Essay)

Pedestrian killed at Cherry and 462

A 73-year-old woman was killed shortly after noon today at the intersection of Cherry Street and Lancaster Avenue after being hit by a pickup truck. Reportedly, the truck turned north onto Lancaster Avenue from Cherry Street and struck the woman, who was crossing the road towards Locust Street Park. Emergency personnel performed CPR at the scene, but the woman later died of her injuries. The intersection was closed for several hours as police investigated the accident scene.

Former Columbian, a Pulitzer finalist, gets poem in NY Times

A work by former Columbian Dean Young, a poet and Pulitzer prize finalist, was featured recently in the The New York Times Magazine. The article is HERE.

Dean Young's Wikipedia entry is HERE.

Eagle Scout uses Columbia-area foundry for Memorial plague

Zimmerman Foundries Company in Columbia, Pennsylvania made the plaque. 
MORE:
http://globegazette.com/news/local/eagle-scout-project-for-memorial-day/article_3903da0d-bbfc-5736-850d-2ab2deacf275.html

Jumping the gun on parking?

This photograph was taken this morning, Saturday, May 28th. Two of the signs shown are contradictory. One of the signs on the left states that parking in the main lot is reserved for vehicles with trailers only from Memorial Day to Labor Day. (Memorial Day is this coming Monday, May 30.) The larger sign on the right implies that the restriction is effective immediately - today, two days early.

With a busy weekend in store, visitors will need all available parking, and the borough shouldn't be too quick to limit it - or to confuse people with contradictory signs.

(FYI from The Spy: Additional parking is available in the meadow just north of the Veterans Memorial Bridge. This area can be accessed via the dirt road next to the chain-link fence at the railroad tracks.)