Columbia Cat Action Team member shows how to trap a cat (or several)

 The Columbia Cat Action Team (CCAT) has trapped 97 cats this year since June in its Trap/Neuter/Return (TNR) program. Dee Henry, who traps for the group, shows how it's done:

Dee typically brings several traps in her own vehicle to the trapping site and then lines them with newspaper. The traps are provided by Columbia Borough.

After a trap is lined, she places food inside.

Canned cat food is used as bait.

Here's a trap that's almost ready to go.

She then covers each trap with a blanket to disguise it and help calm a cat after it's trapped.

The final step is setting the trap, as shown here.

After a cat is trapped, it is held overnight in a CCAT member's garage with other cats trapped that day. In the morning, a volunteer transports the cats to the York SPCA for spaying/neutering. While there, cats also receive rabies and distemper shots. All cats are ear-tipped (left ear) to show they've been fixed. A volunteer then picks up the cats in the late afternoon and takes them to a member's garage to be held overnight until the effects of anesthesia wear off. Finally, the cats are returned to the location where they were originally trapped.

CCAT, which currently has about 15 members, meets monthly to identify potential trapping locations in the borough. Alan Landsman chairs the committee.  The public is invited to the next meeting on January 11, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. at the Watch & Clock Museum. 

Columbia Man Sentenced to 6-20 Years After Hours-Long Standoff at West Hempfield Township Home Nearly Two Years Ago | Lancaster County District Attorney's Office

Shawn Stryker 

A Columbia man was sentenced to 6 to 20 years Thursday by Lancaster County Judge Jeffery Wright after entering an open guilty plea. 

Shawn Stryker, 51 of the 500 block of Goldfinch Road, was charged with Aggravated assault after opening fire on police on January 3, 2021 when they responded to a domestic incident. Stryker was also charged with misdemeanor simple assault and reckless endangerment for pointing a gun at his girlfriend. When police arrived, Stryker refused to surrender and continued the standoff for approximately 10 hours. 

A Lancaster County Special Response Emergency Team (SERT) fired a shot at Stryker when he exited the home with a rifle drawn and aimed at police, which was later deemed justified by District Attorney Heather Adams. 

Nobody was struck by gunfire.

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Agenda - Columbia Borough Council Meeting - December 29, 2022

 

Download the meeting packet HERE.

New Year's at Noon at the National Watch and Clock Museum - December 31, 2022

 

Where and When to get rid of your 2022 Christmas tree

Drop off at Columbia Fire Company at the corner of 10th and Manor Street, or the Columbia Borough Yard Waste Center on Blue Lane from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Jan. 14. 

Read Aloud to Jager at the Library - Thursday, December 29

 

Keep Calm and Yarn On at the Library - Tuesday, December 27