Deeds Recorded - Columbia Borough - October 3, 2022

The estate of Betty L. Betts conveyed property on Staman Lane to Aysia J. Allen for $1.

Patrick A. Bakes and Vicki S. Bakes conveyed 1045 Ironville Pike to Jacob S. Stoltzfus and Mary S. Stoltzfus for $240,000.

Bradley L. Haberstroh conveyed 218 Walnut St. to Adam Kendig Rohrer for $107,500.

Columbia Borough conveyed property on a public road to Columbia Borough for $1.

Edna M. Wakefield, Edna May Wakefield, Kirk J. Wakefield and James D. Wakefield conveyed property on a public road to George W. Sager and Jennifer W. Sager for $365,000.

Melanie Laura Jackson conveyed 1198 Central Ave. to Ashlyn Phillips for $265,000.

Jumping Jack O'Lantern is October's Take & Make at the Library

 

Using Mount Bethel model, Perpetual care planned for cemetery where Thaddeus Stevens rests

Early last month, Mr. and Mrs. Scribbler attended Fete en Noir, a fundraising event at Mount Bethel Cemetery in Columbia. Visitors paid $20 each to sit at dozens of tables amid the tombstones. We ate dinner and listened to a rock band. Some people danced. Others toured the burial ground founded by Quakers in the 1720s.

The Friends of Mount Bethel Cemetery, a nonprofit founded in 2017, are using funds from the event to rewire the cemetery caretaker's house. In this way, they help the cemetery's board of directors, who operate as a nonprofit 501(c)13 corporation, to maintain and improve the cemetery in perpetuity.

Ross Hetrick, president of the Thaddeus Stevens Society, hopes to do something similar — that is, to move beyond volunteer fundraising to provide permanent preservation — for the Shreiner-Concord Cemetery at Mulberry and Chestnut streets in Lancaster. He wants to establish a cemetery owner and provide a substantial endowment.

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About Town - October 2, 2022

 Recent photos of Columbia

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

Tis the season.

["Pirate" submitted by Howard Stevens]

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A PPL transformer, accompanied by a convoy of trucks, began its 19.4-mile journey Tuesday morning, September 27, 2022. The trip originated at the NS Railyard at 103 Bridge Street, and took several hours to reach its destination at the South Manheim Substation on 375 Bucknoll Road, south of Manheim Borough. The transformer followed Route 462, then to Route 741, Route 30 and Fruitville Pike.

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Another one bites the dust.

(500 block of Locust)

Not a fiddler on the roof but one on the wall

Bird's-eye view of a lion's head

Scrounging for scraps

Everyone's doing it . . .

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Rehab work continues in the 500 block of Avenue H.

Did someone set off a loose nuke?

Australian shepherds? Their names are Sydney and Melbourne.

(Says so right on their harnesses.)

Many stars, many stripes

Got gold?

Never forget who did it, and never forget who's friends with them.

Sound advice?

Seemingly unimpressed

At work at River Terrace Apartments, 100 block of Locust

Almost done

At the Elks

Vultures looking for elks?

Dusk

Feral

Possibly feral

Infant and Inri

Instruments of torture

(Fragments of the Past)

Sidewalk sentinels

At the DAC 

(District Administration Center)

Hawk squirrel-hunting at the DAC

No word on whether the hunt was successful

In Search of the Albatwitch - Monday, October 3, at the Library

 

Columbia Public Library Calendar of Events - October 2022

 

 

October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and the sixth of seven months to have a length of 31 days. The eighth month in the old calendar of Romulus c. 750 BC, October retained its name (from Latin and Greek ôctō meaning "eight") after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans.