COLUMBIA SPY

This week's photos of Columbia Bike brigade  Ghost Tours on Locust  Time for a change  Brush up on your holds  Sunflowers on display  Someone got the boot.  Vehicle counter at the bottom of Locust  Looking through Living Stones on Front Street  Limit on personal freedom or just a good idea? At the Tomato Barn (Washington Boro) Playing chicken (Washington Boro) Here are a few from Todd Stahl:  The white cliffs of Conoy, overlooking the Susquehanna River  Borough worker Jimmy Jones on the job Rail trail, Columbia Borough Highway Department trimming weeds along the trail.  Further up the trail Women for Trump on Staman's Lane PSP in town for the rally The light at the end of the tunnel

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Columbia Life Network is once again holding our annual School Supply Drive to support students of Columbia Borough School District and Our Lady of the Angels school. Collection boxes are located at Columbia Life Network, 18 South 4th Street and the Columbia Borough School District Administrative Center, 200 North 5th Street. If any local businesses or organizations would like a collection box please email jamie@columbilifenetwork.org to coordinate. Items needed are a bit different than usual so please see the list provided on the flyer below and financial donations are welcome either by mail or in person at Columbia Life Network. Please share this post and thank you for supporting our students!

Dr. Stephen Diamantoni identified the bodies as Jonathan Rivera, 29, of Lancaster, and Eugenio Morales-Torres, 33, of Columbia.  MORE: https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/coroner-confirms-identities-of-men-killed-found-in-burned-truck/article_f26504b8-d2b3-11ea-a1fd-fb9df72d5467.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share  

Carlos Jimenez, Jr. Carlos Jimenez, Jr. wants money to be taken from the Columbia Borough Police Department budget and used for other purposes in town. Jimenez, a Columbia resident and vice president of Green Dreamz, a Lancaster County-based civil rights organization, made the statement at Tuesday night's Columbia Borough Council meeting, where other members of the organization were present. Jimenez said the reallocated funds need to be directed towards affordable housing and public transportation. To justify his demands, Jimenez presented figures from two large nearby cities. According to Jimenez, Washington DC, with a population of 706,000, spends $145,709 per officer per year and experiences 37,720 crimes per year, 82% of which are non-violent. Philadelphia, with a population of over 5 million, spends $122,746 per officer per year, and has a crime rate of 63,597 per year, 77% of which are non-violent. Columbia Borough, however, with a population of only 10,500, spends $...

Police budget demands: Jimenez, who said he was an organizer of the Lancaster protests following the killing of George Floyd, demanded that the borough reallocate $1.5 million away from the police department and into affordable housing and public transport in the 2021 budget. He requested that the borough make a decision on those funds by Aug. 28. MORE: https://lancasteronline.com/news/regional/columbia-borough-mayor-defends-against-release-of-full-police-policy-citizens-have-mixed-stances/article_8c884f3e-d1ea-11ea-98e1-f3e3561785a6.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share