Weekend Wrap-Up - Sunday, September 26, 2021

Recent photos of Columbia 

Todd Stahl, president and lead instructor of Whitecap Water Rescue Training LLC, led a training session with the Reading Fire Department at Columbia River Park on Friday morning.

(See more photos of the session at the end of this post.)

Here's the statue of Hope at Mount Bethel Cemetery on a foggy morning.

Lanternflies are everywhere, even on this angel's head.

Here's a bird keeping an eye on a lanternfly sitting below it.

Cross in the morning

Here's an overhead rainbow (also called a parhelion). If you look closely, you can see a jet within it.

Two intrepid boaters headed out.

But one started hanging off the back.

Riding a wheelie on the bridge

Love in a pizza shop

Half-hidden

Burgers for everyone!

School buses in the CHS lot

FedEx again

Ready for Halloween

Searching for what was lost

Wishful thinking

Here are several photos of the work being done at the bottom of Locust.

An apartment building is being built.

(At least one construction project is getting off the ground.)

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And along Front Street, the ongoing pipeline project (here and below).

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The river was high again this week after even more heavy rains.

Roll Tide!

It's foggy downtown. It's never clear what's going on down there.

After the celebration.

Here are photos of the training session at River Park on Friday:

Columbia Spy is on Instagram.

Another Columbia resident tells Council members of buried barrels of waste at borough's recently purchased McGinness Airport

When: Columbia Borough Council meeting Sept. 14.

What happened: Council members learned of a second Columbia resident who said he knew about the possibility of barrels buried at the McGinness Airport site, along with personnel and medical records from a metal manufacturing plant. Columbia paid $1.495 million for the property Aug. 20. Since then, two people have notified council that containers supposedly containing hazardous waste were buried in the 1970s. One resident sent an online message to Council Vice President Sharon Lintner and brought up the matter in an online discussion comment with Council President Heather Zink.

Quotable: "He shared his story about the barrels and about some records being buried," Borough Manager Mark Stivers said after the meeting. Nothing was discovered during ecological and land studies conducted before the purchase.

Background: The borough bought roughly 58 acres at the McGinness site. Lintner and Howard Stevens voted against purchasing the property. Zink, Peter Stahl, Fran Fitzgerald, Eric Kauffman and Todd Burgard voted in favor. Plans call to develop 40 acres off Manor Street into an innovation and technology campus that would include a hiking trail through a nature preserve and a children's playground.

Next step: The borough will search for any buried materials. "We've narrowed down the area," Stivers said. Columbia will clean the area if any hazardous waste is found.

MORE: 

https://lancasteronline.com/news/regional/another-columbia-resident-tells-council-members-of-buried-barrels-of-waste-at-boroughs-recently-purchased/article_c9100222-1c11-11ec-a0f7-e7a6084b1bbf.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share 

Columbia senior Robert Footman has gone from overcoming a devastating injury to all-star QB in two short years

The diagnosis: Footman snapped his right tibia and fibula. Both were clean breaks. After some frantic phone calls to his parents, he was whisked away to the hospital that evening, and by lunch time the next day, he had two titanium screws surgically inserted into his tibia. They remained there for three solid months.

"It was so bad," Columbia football coach Bud Kyle said, "that the X-rays don't even do it justice."

[MORE AT LINK]

https://lancasteronline.com/sports/highschool/football/columbia-senior-robert-footman-has-gone-from-overcoming-a-devastating-injury-to-all-star-qb/article_ec0427c8-1be3-11ec-b762-6783eaf6d5d8.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share 

Midweek Update - Wednesday, September 22, 2021 (The first day of fall)

Recent photos of Columbia

(Click/tap on photos to see larger, sharper images.) 

Work continues on the proposed 33-unit apartment building at the bottom of Locust:

A heron found a perch on the junk pile just out from the River Park cul-de-sac:

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The Spot moved out a few months ago.

And now it's V & G (438 Locust Street).

There's info on them HERE.

More moving at the State Theatre.

Tis the season:

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Ongoing construction at the Catholic War Vets

At the town square

It was a good day for sailing.

These guys showed up on Tuesday and started weeding the bridge.

A day later, it looked like this.

Sticker shock!

A building within a building?

COLUMBIA BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT

A few from Mount Bethel Cemetery:

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Stirring up some dust on Chestnut Street

Runaway doggie poop bags!

Out-of towner

A partial eclipse of the flag

(Symbolism has been noted.)

Working on the railroad (or rather, drilling on it):

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Collusion Tap Works

A good boy (or girl) enjoying the ride

The clock from the former Visitors Center will eventually go here on Poplar Street at the Watch & Clock Museum (where it was originally).

This is why you shouldn't paint brick.

(There are other reasons, too, which will eventually be posted on the Spy.)

How was this allowed to happen???

How is it allowed to remain?!

Here's one more of the heron, just because.

Columbia Spy is on Instagram HERE.