Sunday, April 5, 2020

About Town 4/5/2020

This week's photos of Columbia


Taco Nazi says,
"No tacos for you!" at Tacos to Go until further notice.

Morning light


A few more fog pictures from Monday morning...








 Sparrow peeking through

Cormorant and friend

Tall window on Locust

 Citizens are urged to.

 Tangled in the fly swatter

 Almost ready

 Saint Francis

There's been a lot of web activity lately. 
Spiders have been busy (here and below).




 Precautions at St. John's Herr Estate



 "Tree" o'clock

 Open

 Daffodils in a row

 A full supply of F-bombs

Speaking of "bombs"

 At the Marine Corps League headquarters

On Ironville Pike

 In bloom

 Out at Norwood

 An earth-sheltered domicile

 Suitable for anyone named Bilbo, Frodo, or Samwise

 Another F-bomb ready to go

 Lancaster Container on Bridge Street is OK to operate.

At the town square . . . 
Flowers made from silverware (here and below)







And a new butt holder has been placed.

 Free stuff . . .
Capitalists don't want people to get free stuff.

 Surprise!

 Resting

 Aware

 EXPAWLORER

 The Easter Bunny was surveying the area to determine whether or not he'll be here next week.

 Four towers and an evergreen

 Structures

 Woodpecker on high

 Loose doggos at Laurel Hill Cemetery

 In case of emergency

 Love trumps hate.

 Semi-feral feline on Locust

 Folks still aren't getting it.

Central PA Food Bank truck at Columbia Presbyterian

 Workers unloading supplies there

 Palm Sunday

 Morning song

Despite the note . . .

 People dump stuff anyway.

Photographer at work

 Turkey vulture . . . waiting . . .

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Columbia Borough PD appeals to public to help provide personal protective equipment for its officers

A Lancaster County police department is appealing to the public for help in providing its officers with personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 outbreak.

The Columbia Borough Police Department said Tuesday it is reaching out to the community for help in protecting its officers. The department said it is specifically in need of N-95 surgical masks, rubber gloves, and hand sanitizer for its officers.

"If you wish to donate or provide information on how to obtain these needed supplies, please call the Police Department at 717-684-7735," the announcement said. "The N-95 respirators are especially important for the protection of our officers."

MORE:

https://www.fox43.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/columbia-borough-pd-appeals-to-public-to-help-provide-personal-protective-equipment-for-its-officers/521-e76b6f8d-227f-4ff2-b8af-adb30ca20fca 

Columbia man charged with robbing 2 Turkey Hills made over 100 calls from prison in effort to lie to court: police

Timothy D. Jenkins
A Columbia man charged in January for robbing two Turkey Hills, 42 minutes apart on Jan. 5, sporting a knife in one robbery and wearing a wig in another, has been charged with perjury and attempt to intimidate a witness, according to new charges filed by the Columbia Borough Police.  
Timothy Jenkins, 52, made more than 100 phone calls to a woman that helped police in the robbery investigation, "demanding that she not testify against him during court proceedings," according to the affidavit of probable cause.  
Jenkins, who made all of these phone calls from Lancaster County Prison, also demanded that the woman tell investigators and the court that he was with her when these robberies happened, police said.  
MORE:

https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/columbia-man-charged-with-robbing-2-turkey-hills-made-over-100-calls-from-prison-in/article_341641e8-7417-11ea-8bdd-ffc61e52dd20.html 

Railroad car vandalism in Columbia Borough

Police say someone released the brake on a railcar and it drifted into another railcar causing more than $600,000 in damages.

Police were dispatched to the 300 block of South Fourth Street on March 10, for a criminal mischief complaint.

A witness who spoke with the police said he saw two teens running from the area


MORE:
https://www.fox43.com/article/news/crime/railroad-car-vandalism-in-columbia-borough/521-5cace708-8478-4974-b855-5106faa763eb 

Railroad car vandalism in Columbia Borough

WGAL Video: Columbia Borough leaders urge residents to follow social distancing guidelines