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Quote for today … “Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the ‘latent spark’ … If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?”                                                    John Adams, 1775

• A Special Council meeting will be held this evening, Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 7:00 pm to appoint terms for Board Members of the Market House Historic Trust and any other necessary Borough business.
• Here is the agenda for the “special meeting” with the “other necessary Borough business:”4-26-2011 special council agenda
• from the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era: “Donegal School District plans to cut home-ec classes”
• “These accounts – and all others derived from them – draw a clear path to Columbia as the location of the earliest episodes of Underground Railroad activities, including as key evidence the anti-slavery works of the Wrights and their Quaker brethren … .” Larry Alexander’s continuing series saluting the 150th anniversary of the Civil War continues in today’s Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era with numerous references to Columbia’s importance in the Underground Railroad.
• from the York Dispatch: An article stating, “Trying to plug a $3.8 million budget gap, the York Suburban School District, in the rolling hills of southern Pennsylvania, is seeking to raise property taxes by 1.4%. No way, says Nick Pandelidis, founder of the York Suburban Citizens for Responsible Government, a tea-party offshoot, of the plan that would boost the tax on a median-priced home of $157,685 by $44 a year to $3,225. Here is the rest of the story from the Wall Street Journal.  Click here for the Wall Street Journal’s full story.
• The month of May is just loaded proclamations of special days, weeks and the month. To help identify some of these in advance, we will list a few each day with links to the celebratory event. Be Kind to Animals Week (May 1 to 7) – National Skin Cancer Awareness Month – National Mental Health Month