About Town - February 20, 2022

Recent photos of Columbia

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Early morning moon at the DAC

Heads Up on Barber Street

Pillars in late afternoon light

A meat heart - 

Not in Columbia but strange nonetheless

Love is in the air.

The "diversion" for the water intake project has become an efficient debris collector.

Yes it has.

On June 28, 1863, several Columbians helped burn the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge to keep the Confederates out of here. They're buried in Mount Bethel Cemetery. 

Yet, this thing now flies in Columbia.

There's a strange-looking cloud.

Here's a closer look.

Doggo looking tired but wary.

Google tells us: 

"In the military, a Nine Line is a medevac request for a soldier that is injured on the battlefield. To soldiers, a Nine Line symbolizes patriotism, hope, and trust in one's countrymen."

Up a tree

Trees were being cut at Saint Peter Apartments the other day.

This is how you block a street.

Be aware of new stop signs in town.

In flight

Cracks have become trees, or is it vice versa?

Deer in the dark:

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More clouds:

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Flags flying:

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Damage assessment

Welcome to Columbia

Meal, finished or about to begin?

At 2nd & Walnut

When's the next MS4 inspection?

The 300 block of Avenue G never fails to disappoint.

More of the bridge:

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JG Environmental is interested in our sewer plant.

This is their facility in Lancaster.

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Not the eye of Sauron, but possibly that of Treebeard

DEFENSE CONTRACTOR WAS MASTERMIND OF SCHEME IN'80s

James Guerin

[DAN NEPHIN
DNEPHIN@LNPNEWS.COM]

It’s a good bet that most Clipper Magazine employees or anyone driving by the company’s East Hempfield Township headquarters have no idea of the property’s connection to Lancaster County’s largest-ever corporate crime. Addresses for Clipper and other businesses at the campus now list “Hempland Road” for the street address. Google Maps still hints at its past: Electronics Way, where a 100-acre campus was built in the early 1980s to headquarter International Signal & Control Corp.’s defense systems division.

James Guerin, who died Feb. 10 at 91, founded ISC in his Landisville basement and grew it to employ 1,800 locally, making it one of the county’s largest employers. It employed 5,500 worldwide. ISC and its divisions made space rockets and security, defense and ordnance systems, such as missile fuses and devices to jam radio signals.

Ultimately, Guerin was found responsible for fraudulent contracts worth $1.14 billion, coupled with a $50 million scheme to illegally sell and ship embargoed weaponry and components to South Africa during the apartheid era.
MORE AT LNP

BE AWARE OF NEW STOP SIGNS AT THESE INTERSECTIONS

 

* Cherry St. and S 6th St - one new sign for East bound traffic

* Franklin St. and S 13th St- one new sign for East bound traffic

* N 5th St. and Maple St- two new signs for 5th St. North and South bound traffic


[Source: Columbia Borough]

Veterans Memorial Bridge shown in Super Bowl ad

A screenshot from the Mercedes Super Bowl ad featuring drone footage of the Veterans Memorial Bridge from father-son team Eric and Nathan Wenger of Lititz posted on their 717 Drone Guys Facebook page.
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The official numbers aren't in yet, but experts estimate that more than 100 million viewers watched the 2022 Super Bowl.

That means millions must have seen the Mercedes-EQ commercial featuring a shot of the Veterans Memorial Bridge that connects Columbia and Wrightsville, filmed by Lititz residents Eric Wenger and his son Nathan.

But, despite having the game on, Wenger wasn't one of them.

The aerial footage of the Veterans Memorial Bridge, which Wenger shot on the morning of Dec. 31, 2018, opens the Mercedes commercial and lingers there for about two seconds before moving on the next shot.

Wenger and his son Nathan have been shooting, editing, posting and selling drone clips on sites like Shutterstock and Pond5 as 717 Drone Guys since Eric received a drone as a 40th birthday gift from his wife, Kristin, five years ago.

MORE:

https://lancasteronline.com/features/lititz-father-and-son-duos-drone-footage-appears-in-a-mercedes-super-bowl-ad/article_c47c972e-8dc3-11ec-b1f2-33580674249f.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share 

Agenda - Columbia Borough Planning Commission Meeting - February 15, 2022

 

[LNP | LancasterOnline] Columbia man pulled knife on EMT after claiming he hurt his foot: police

Jeremic Medina-Dorta was charged with multiple felonies and misdemeanors after he cut an EMT with a knife in Lancaster city on Feb. 12, 2022, according to Lancaster city police. 

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A Columbia man who claimed he hurt his foot pulled a knife from his waistband and cut an EMT who was trying to help him, according to Lancaster city police.

Jeremic Medina-Dorta, 27, walked up to another person around 6:42 p.m. on Saturday, yelling that he hurt his foot and that he was under the influence of "acid", according to an affidavit of probable cause. An ambulance arrived and Medina-Dorta got into the ambulance willingly.

But as an EMT tried to treat him, he started to kick and punch a Lancaster police officer and another medic, police said. 

He then pulled a knife from his back waistband and "used the knife to slice (the) EMT," police wrote in the affidavit. He cut the EMT twice in her abdomen.

 

Police were able to wrestle the 3-and-a-half-inch knife from the man before arresting him, police said. 

During the altercation, Medina-Dorta damaged the stretcher he was on, valued at $20,000, and damaged an officer's firearm holster, valued at $160, police said.

Medina-Dorta is charged with three felony counts of aggravated assault, one felony count of criminal mischief, three misdemeanor counts of recklessly endangering another person and one misdemeanor for criminal mischief, according to court dockets.

He's currently in Lancaster County Prison after failing to pay $50,000 monetary bail.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 23 in front of District Judge Bruce Roth.

https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/columbia-man-pulled-knife-on-emt-after-claiming-he-hurt-his-foot-police/article_efdf2e0e-8db9-11ec-9e94-db64d8903c7f.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share 

Deeds Recorded - Columbia Borough - February 14, 2022

The estate of Charles H. Benfer III and Judith A. Benfer conveyed 855 Wright St. to Renewed Concepts LLC for $130,000.

Colin B. Hall, Pearl L. Hall, Pearl Hall, Colin Hall Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office conveyed 1300 Locust St. to Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB and Nationstar Hecem Acquisition Trust 2020-1 for $2,365.

Integrity First Home Buyers LLC and Clyde E. Bostic conveyed 327 S. Third St. to James J. Han for $158,000.

Lauryn E. Fitch conveyed 925 Spruce St. to Briana N. Alston for $175,000.

Integrity First Home Buyers LLC conveyed 327 S. Third St. to James J. Han and Jae Yun Han for $158,000.

Luke A. Brandt conveyed 208 S. Fifth St. to Daniel S. Kline for $69,800.

Christopher L. Ginter conveyed property on a public road to Flawless Facade LLC for $525,000.

Jeffrey L. Dale and Carol R. Dale conveyed 639 Union St. to QP Invest Real Estate Group LLC for $130,000.

Gabriel Davila Acevedo, Gabriel Davila Acevedo, Mari Ivette Davila, Mari I. Reyes and Mari I. Davila conveyed 366 S. Third St. to Kaitlin G. Schaller for $123,000.

Joy L. Freeland conveyed 417 Union St. to Joy L. Freeland and Carlton Mahadeo for $1.

John R. Chamberlin and Corinne L. Orfanella conveyed 149 S. Fifth St. to Anthony Rodriguez for $157,000.

Enrique Bernard and Jannette Bernard conveyed 325 S. Third St. to Mary R. Peifer and Glenn A. Peifer for $140,000.

Kl Property Services Inc. conveyed property on South Fifth Street. to Victor Cepeda Nunez for $170,000.