Friday, March 21, 2025

Restaurant Inspections - Columbia Borough - March 21, 2025


Columbia VFW, 401 Manor St., Columbia, March 11. Pass. No violations.

Taylor Middle School, 45 N. Ninth St., Columbia, March 11. Pass. No violations.

Nouveau Tea, 403 N. Third St., Columbia, March 10. Pass. Observed employee food intermingled with food for the business rather than being segregated and stored on the bottom of the reach-in cooler. An irreversible registering thermometer or thermal labels are not available for monitoring the rinse temperature of the mechanical dish washer. The hand-wash sink located in the food preparation area does not have water at a temperature of at least 85 F. Hot water was turned off. The hand-wash sink in the food preparation area was blocked by two large pieces of plastic, and not accessible at all times for employee use. The plastic pieces were blocking the use of the foot pedal for the water.




Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Rock's CardioBox and Fitness classes are all about group and community

 

Rochelle (right) joins Marilyn Englehart in an exercise. 

Fitness coach Rochelle ("Rock") Gutierrez Meiskey says her Rock's CardioBox and Fitness programs are all about group and community. "It's all about group and community, so it's different than some of your Planet Fitnesses where you can go in and lift weights or do cardio,” she explains. “We don't really have that kind of equipment in here, because we're more about the group." The private Facebook group has 1,000 silent observers and 50-100 active members.

 Rochelle holds classes in a bright 1,300-square-foot studio at 430 Walnut Street, where she relocated about a year and a half ago. "We wanted something clean and bright and comfortable and welcoming," she says of the facility.

Classes focus on group fitness, including yoga, pilates, senior's classes, boxing, and kickboxing. Rochelle personally teaches boxing on Monday and Thursday evenings, and Sunday morning boot camp sessions. "We have two back-to-back, because that's our biggest class," she says of the Sunday boot camp, which typically attracts about 20 participants. The boot camp concentrates heavily on strength and conditioning.


Kato Meley leads a class in "Gentle Fitness."

Another popular offering is the "Gentle Fitness" class led by instructor Kato Meley, where participants known as "GoldiRocks" attend sessions on Tuesday and Thursday mornings 9-9:30 a.m..There's also a full-hour class on Wednesday evenings at 7:15 p.m. The 30-minute classes cost $5, while hour-long sessions are $11. Classes feature one-minute exercise rounds at 10 different stations, alternating cardio and strength training, with one-minute recovery breaks.

Rochelle emphasizes that the "Goldirocks" participants "do the same thing that my athletes do, except at a little different scale and pace," which she says is empowering for them. "We can accommodate and modify all the exercises for whatever people need,” she explains. "It's not like we do the same class every night. We try to do variety to allow people to find something that they enjoy doing.” While men are welcome in all classes, none have participated yet. 


The Gentle Fitness class meets Tuesday and Thursday mornings and Wednesday nights.

The boxing and boot camp programs occasionally feature "mobile fitness" sessions held outdoors at various locations, including Columbia River Park and Wrightsville. Rochelle emphasizes that they "keep the classes small" to maintain quality.

The Cat Yoga Program

Rochelle notes that the Columbia Animal Shelter hosts monthly Cat Yoga sessions led by instructor Beverly Kelley. Running for almost a year, the program accommodates 15 participants who engage in stretching and interacting with the shelter cats. Participants can choose to exercise in the kitten room, female cat room, or male cat room. The program supports adoption efforts, with most proceeds benefiting the animal shelter. An hour session costs $25. Participants may not bring their own cats. 

More information:

Website

Facebook page

Email

Phone: (717) 475-9018

Address: 430 Walnut Street, Suite 102 Columbia, PA 17512






Monday, March 17, 2025

Deeds Recorded - Columbia Borough - March 17, 2025


Burke Richard T, Burk Richard T, Burke Bernadette, Burk Bernadette conveyed 308 Avenue Q to Honest Home Solutions LLC for $19,420.

Cranford Joshua S, Cranford Shannon M, Peffley Shannon M. conveyed 824 Locust St. to Joshua S. Cranford for $1.

Prime Deals LLC conveyed 1214 Manor St. to Hurst Ethan J, Spezialetti Brooke N. for $290,000.

Adams John L, Adams John, Adams Jennifer E, Adams Jennifer conveyed 714 Walnut St. to Medrano Gian Carlos Rodriguez, Fallas Mikayla Jennifer for $229,00000.

Paul A. Witmer Jr. conveyed 250 S. Eighth St. to Michelle D. Minnick for $249,900.


Sunday, March 16, 2025

About Town - March 16, 2025

This week's photos of Columbia 

Click on photos to see larger, sharper images. 


A Wrightsville resident found this grave marker in their backyard and donated it to the Columbia Historic Preservation Society. How it got to Wrightsville is a mystery. 

It marked the grave of a Civil War Union soldier, Corporal George H. Stape. The grave's location is unknown, but research suggests it may have been at a burial trench at Salisbury National Cemetery, Salisbury, North Carolina. Stape's name also appears on a Stape family grave marker at Mount Bethel Cemetery.

According to online records, Stape died of disease in Salisbury Prison (a Confederate prison) in North Carolina in 1865.

This is the grave marker for the Stape family (including George) at Mount Bethel. 

Another side of the marker.

The following information was found online at lancasteratwar.com and findagrave.com:




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Fellowship meals are available at United Methodist Church on these days. 

All boarded up

Security cameras - a necessary evil 

Is there an underground network?

Suitable for hanging on your living room wall

Reserved coffin

Bus driver training

Currently not in service 

Activity(?) at 14 Lancaster Avenue, currently owned by Group B Enterprises LLC

Activity at the tracks, but Norfolk Southern still hasn't fortified the crossing at the former sewer plant and is holding up the borough's plan to sell the plant to JG Environmental, which is currently renting the facility. 

PennDOT workers patching cracks(?) in the bridge

Looking at St. John Lutheran from Mount Bethel 

Don't dump nasty stuff down the storm drains.

Welcome to Columbia 
Your parking fine is now $30!

At Tollbooth Antiques 

Tractor in the driveway, ready to go

The signpost snapped off. 

Is this OK?

A brand new hydrant at 2nd & Walnut

Columbia's getting a new utility pole along Front Street. 

Flow the rock snake is migrating from  Columbia Crossing. 

Someone might be getting 7 years of bad luck.

Package drop box

Under new management 

There's another one.

There was a lunar eclipse Friday morning. 

These notices were posted at 209 Walnut Street, where a fire occurred last August. Columbia Spy reported on the fire HERE.


On Sunday afternoon (3/16/25), high winds blew a tree over, which temporarily blocked Ironville Pike, near the former Twin Oaks swimming pool. 

Units responded. 

High winds also churned up some rough waters on the Susquehanna. 



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