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today’s news … Thursday, April 19

In Uncategorized on April 19, 2012 at 6:00 am

today’s news and information gleanings from here and there! 

Quote for today… “Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.” – Satchel Paige

  • “Police nabbed a man who tried to rob a restaurant in Columbia on Tuesday, they said. Frederick William Caswell, 59, who has no address, targeted the Columbia Family Restaurant at 960 Columbia Ave. at 10:05 a.m., borough police said in a criminal complaint. Caswell demanded all the money in the cash register and threatened to have a gun, police said.” – LancasterOnLine
  • “A Tea Light Lantern Float Festival designed to benefit the York County Youth Development Center is planned for April 28 in Wrightsville, according to a county news release. It is open to the public and will help raise money for the center’s youth programming and community outreach activities. The event will begin at 6 p.m. at the John Wright Restaurant. It will culminate at 8 p.m. with the lighting of pre-purchased tea light lanterns that will be placed in the Susquehanna River to float downstream.” York Daily Record
  • Love’s not supposed to hurt: “A Mountville man was jailed Wednesday for a series of abusive behavior against his girlfriend.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
  • Maybe parades have had their time as another parade is jeopardized by lack of funding. The Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era reposts, “It may be a lack of funds, but no lack of spirit. The 2010 American Spirit Parade was canceled due to lack of funding. The 2011 parade was threatened with cancellation, but an anonymous donor came through.This year, the April 28 parade has been pushed back nearly five months to allow organizers more time to try to raise money.”
  • POLICE LOG – “WEST HEMPFIELD TWP.: Seven Asplundh Tree Service trucks had one or more tires slashed overnight Sunday. – WEST HEMPFIELD TWP.: Mark Morgan, 31, of Lancaster, was cited Sunday after he struck a mailbox in Mountville. – WEST HEMPFIELD TWP.: Michael D. Rowley, 23, of Lancaster, was charged Monday with harassment and criminal mischief after striking a person during a domestic incident and damaging property. – MARIETTA: George J. Ditzler III, 33, of 10 Lancaster Estates, Mount Joy, was cited after a stop sign violation March 11 at North Decatur and West Market streets. – MANOR TWP.: On April 12, a resident of the 500 block of Owl Bridge Read the rest of this entry »

Dick Clark: Bandstand

In Everyday Living, History and Heritage, People on April 19, 2012 at 5:30 am

If you are one of the really lucky ones, you remember coming home from school when you were in your teens and tuning in “Bandstand.” Maybe you had to turn the antenna by hand to catch the signal or maybe your family had one of the Alliance tenna rotors?

Early 1950′s (5-52) RETRO brown Bakelite electronic TV antenna tuner.

Or maybe you just endured the snowy black and white images and listened as Dick Clark brought rock and roll music; classic performers; the regulars (Bunny Gibson, Eddie Kelly, Justine Carelli and Carmen Jimenez) and the other “big city” dance, dress, hairstyles and speech into our Lancaster County homes each school day. Lucky us.

American Bandstand regulars, Kenny Rossi dancing with Justine Carelli on the TV show – by Paul Schutzer

And now, it’s 5:00 and Bandstand is over … Dick Clark died yesterday. Another generational icon is gone and each of us grieves for Dick Clark and another era.

Read articles about Dick Clark at Philly.com here.

The Conversation: “Donating your body to science? Don’t worry, it’s not what it used to be”

In Everyday Living, History and Heritage, Opinions, Opportunities on April 19, 2012 at 5:00 am

“The recent discovery of hundreds of human body parts in the University of Cologne’s cellars shocked Germany’s academic community and raised broader questions about the rights of people who donate their bodies to medical science and the responsibilities of scientific organisations.

Medical schools traditionally relied on unclaimed corpses to dissect in anatomy class. Flickr/PCOM

“Cologne University staff reportedly discovered decomposing human corpses and large plastic buckets labelled ‘noses,’ ‘newborns’ and ‘shark head.’ Hygiene experts estimate the room might have been unused for a decade or more.

“While shocking, it’s not inconsistent with Victoria’s troubled history of dealing with human remains.

Historical Cadavers

“The British Anatomy Act of 1832 was the first government attempt to establish the ownership of corpses. It followed the public outrage at Burke and Hare’s scheme to provide freshly murdered corpses to anatomy schools. Other body snatchers were raiding new gravesites to meet the growing demand for fresh corpses.

“In 1862, when the first Australian medical school was established in Melbourne, corpses were in short supply. So the Victorian Parliament passed the Anatomy Act to legalise the collection and dissection of cadavers. Controversy soon erupted, with newspapers complaining the Act omitted to mention where the cadavers would be sourced. There was also concern that relatives weren’t given enough time – just 24 hours – to reclaim the bodies of their loved Read the rest of this entry »

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