Sunday, February 12, 2017

Year End Report 2016 - Lancaster County Wide Communications


Lancaster County Wide Communications has published its 2016 Year End Report, which can be accessed HERE.

The following statistics have been gleaned from the report, according to the Columbia Borough Fire Department Station 80 Facebook page:
  • Station 80 - 794 - Busiest Volunteer Single Station
  • Squad Co.(Engine 801) - 307 - 4th Busiest Volunteer Engine Co.
  • Wagon(Engine 802) - 311 - 3rd Busiest Volunteer Engine Co.
  • Ladder(Truck 80) - 288 - 2nd Busiest Volunteer Truck Co.
  • Rescue 80 - 310 - Busiest Volunteer Rescue Co.

Saturday, February 11, 2017

Draft Agenda - Borough Council Meeting February 13, 2017




About Town

Recent pics from about town . . .

 Gone . . .

 replaced by Cooper's Comics & Collectibles . . .

 due to open on March 1 at Fifth and Locust.

 Vape at Goose Vapes on North Fourth.

 Liberty on Locust
Two Mr. Libertys because we have twice the liberty in Trump's America.
Don't we?

 And as the internet has told us, snakes can't really do that.

A banner that overstayed its welcome

 A tree grows in Avenue H.

 Work continues at the former Long's Funeral Home at Ninth & Chestnut.

 Yep, he really parked there.

 Well, that's one way to get the drywall in.

 Park properly!

 A bird in hand is worth a whole bunch in the bush.

At the old chip factory at Second and Locust

Learn to Solder at the library Monday afternoon


Monday, February 6, 2017

State lawmakers devised a system of policing their own ethics under a cloak of secrecy


There’s this: a system of ethics oversight that might as well take place in the deepest, darkest recesses of the august Capitol building in Harrisburg. (If a lawmaker has an ethical misstep and none of his constituents sees or hears about it, did it really happen?)
MORE:
http://lancasteronline.com/opinion/editorials/state-lawmakers-devised-a-system-of-policing-their-own-ethics/article_2a6d823c-ea54-11e6-beab-d3bedfc45c94.html

Warm weather brings folks out and about

Unseasonably warm weather (near 60°!) brought folks out and about today.  

It was a good day for . . . 

 Canoeing

 Jogging

 Walking

 Contemplating

 Hoverboarding

Sprouting