Friday, July 19, 2019

Columbia could pay $315,000 a year under new shared services agreement with Elanco


The agreement, which stretches from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2026, extends a partnership between two districts on opposite ends of Lancaster County. The relationship began in 2016 when they also shared a superintendent for one year.
Elanco unanimously approved the extension Monday. Although the Columbia board has yet to consider it, Elanco Superintendent Bob Hollister said it's a win-win for both districts.

MORE:

https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/columbia-could-pay-k-a-year-under-new-shared-services/article_7af55350-a99d-11e9-9366-27aec544a91b.html

Thursday, July 18, 2019

Meet Hobie in Columbia House Party this Saturday, July 20!

MEET HOBIE HOUSE PARTY
SATURDAY,  JULY 20 AT 5 PM
500 CHESTNUT STREET
COLUMBIA
Free and open to the public
Light refreshments will be served


Hobie Crystle

Hobie Crystle is running for Lancaster County District Attorney to make our justice system fair for everyone. He is going to stop wasting taxpayer money on practices that just don’t work. He is committed to helping people suffering from addiction get treatment, rather than throwing them in jail. Hobie will end the broken cash bail system, which splits families apart and costs people their jobs and their housing.



Meet Hobie in Columbia at a House Party this Saturday,  July 20 at 5 p.m. at 500 Chestnut Street.


Learn more about Hobie at his website HERE.

Hobie's Facebook page is HERE.


Hobie Crystle is running for Lancaster County District Attorney because he knows it’s time for the criminal justice system to start serving us the way it was intended to– and to stop wasting taxpayer money on solutions that don’t work. We have a unique chance through Hobie to change the culture of the District Attorney’s office, creating a criminal justice system that is fair, empathetic to our community’s needs, and that works for everyone.

The cash bail system has created two criminal justice systems: one for the haves, and another for the have-nots.​ When people are saddled with cash bail they cannot pay, they lose their job, their apartment, their car— and maybe their relationships and their kids. In the end, the taxpayer pays because the families left behind go on welfare or into public housing, and the kids go into foster care. As District Attorney, Hobie will eliminate cash bail for small offenses, where the crime wouldn’t require a jail sentence even if convicted.




T.J. Griffin (with DJ Skamzz) coming to Columbia's National Night Out August 6


T.J. Griffin, an at-risk youth mentor and advocate will headline Columbia's National Night Out at Glatfelter Memorial Field this year. T.J. is a former recording artist manager and has worked with film director Zack Snyder, rapper-actor ICE T, and the legendary band Queen. T.J. will be on stage 7-7:45p.m. Lancaster's DJ Skamzz will also appear.

See Griffin's TEDx talk, "The Paper Plane Effect" HERE.

Griffin was also featured in the independent film CHOICES. See the trailer HERE.

See ICE T's endorsement of Griffin HERE.

DJ Skamzz will also appear at this year's National Night Out. 

Columbia's National Night Out is scheduled for Tuesday,  August 6, 6-9 p.m., at Glatfelter Memorial Field.  The rain date is Tuesday,  August 13.

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Man rushes from Harrisburg to Columbia to watch first man on the moon in 1969


Rushed out of work
I was the only person in the family who had to work on that day in 1969. My whole family was at my Aunt Jane's house in Columbia, Pennsylvania. As soon as work ended I got in my car and rushed to Columbia. Made the trip from Harrisburg in about 35 minutes - door to door. I missed the actual moon landing but got there in plenty of time to see Neil Armstrong take the first steps, of any human being, on the surface of the moon. On a black and white TV, of course. Quite a thrill!
-- Michael S. Tucci Jr., Harrisburg
MORE:
https://www.pennlive.com/life/2019/07/readers-recall-where-they-were-when-apollo-11-landed-on-the-moon-i-thought-walter-cronkite-was-going-to-have-a-cow.html

Cheeze Brothers & Sisters at Locust Street Park Friday, July 19