Sunday, September 10, 2023
About Town - September 10, 2023
This week's photos of Columbia
(Click/tap on photos to see larger, sharper images.)
House on the river
Docking procedure
A harbinger of Halloween?
Maybe
Another harbinger of Halloween?
No, just a worker removing lead paint from a house.
There's a sign at the site.
Morning feline
Diving ducks
Truck, dumping at Rail Mechanical at 4th & Manor
Speaking of trucks, here's one that got caught crossing the bridge.
The write-up
After the "weigh-in"
More bridge inspection this week -
PennDOT must really be worried.
A missing corner.
Rebar showing through
Possible leaching
(or maybe just seagull poop)
A crack down through the field of mystery numbers
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Sparrow convention
Draw your own conclusions.
A new sign for Flow the rock snake
Did someone swipe Flow's head again?
Buzzard birthday
Many buzzards
Ready for winter
Game over
There are always interesting "artifacts" at Tollbooth Antiques . . .
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The roof's on, and porches are sprouting at the Habitat project.
Beginning of the South 2nd Street CDBG project
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[Photos by Todd Stahl]
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'Til next week . . .
[Submitted photo]
Friday, September 8, 2023
For $26,000, Marietta could become home for 12-foot-tall statue inspired by the Susquehanna River
A sculpture titled "River Spirit" was commissioned in 2002 by the late Harrisburg Mayor Stephen Reed. The artist, Steven Dolbin, has completed the sculpture but, according to Haneman, "he doesn't know what to do with it." The sculpture weighs 7,000 pounds and is 37 feet long, five feet wide and 12 feet tall.
More: Dolbin said he created the sculpture, which is made of high-grade stainless steel, to "honor our Native American brothers and sisters" and to "speak sculpturally" about that heritage of the Susquehanna River and region. Embedded in the steel, which is shaped like a winding river, are "sacred images of various cultures, tribal wisdom and tributes to original cave paintings," according to an article from The Burg News website.
The cost: Dolbin is willing to donate the piece, but it will cost approximately "$26,000 to move it and to finish it when it gets to a new home," Haneman said. In an email, Haneman explained that Rivertownes, "does not have a budget to support this project" and that it "was suggested that a fundraising campaign be organized to fund it."
Sponsorship needed: Haneman reported that Create Columbia and Columbia Borough approached Rivertownes about sponsorship for the project. According to their website, Rivertownes is a nonprofit that "manages and preserves the Musselman-Vesta Iron Furnace Center and surrounding iron furnace remains" and cultivates "art, heritage, and recreation in the river towns of Columbia, Marietta, and Wrightsville."
MORE:
View the sculpture HERE.
Restaurant Inspections - Columbia Borough - September 8, 2023
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, 866-366-3723, uses a risk-based inspection reporting process for restaurants and other food handlers.
Bootleg Antiques, 135 Bridge St., Columbia, Aug. 30. Pass. No violations.
Columbia VFW, 401 Manor St., Columbia, Aug. 30. Pass. Old food residue on the potato slicer.
Garth, 22 S. Second St., Columbia, Aug. 30. Pass. No violations.
Columbia Borough Fire Department (Hambones Social Club), 726 Manor St., Columbia, Aug. 29. Pass. Food facility does not have available sanitizer test strips or test kit to determine appropriate sanitizer concentration of chlorine bleach for the mechanical glass washer at the bars.
Columbia Borough Fire Department (kitchen), 726 Manor St., Columbia, Aug. 29. Pass. No violations.
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