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Quote for today … “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”                                                       John Adams, 1798

• Around 40 people attended the meeting at the Columbia Senior High School this evening as the superintendent went though a Power Point presentation showing the administration’s plan to balance the budget. The plan included a pay freeze for administrative staff and support personnel and maintenance of teaching expenses with retirements and non-replacement of personnel. We will have a few more particulars in an article tomorrow.
• The importance of schools is highlighted in this article: “Loss of schools tears at communities across Ala.”
• National Day of Prayer events in Lancaster County begin tomorrow evening.
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• AP article: “Storm survivors turn to faith, federal government”
• No matter what your belief is:
• from the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era: follow Larry Alexander’s “150th anniversary of the Civil War” series in today’s newspaper. “Drummer identified. Brought back from obscurity, the unidentified drummer boy of Independent Battery I has been identified. According to his grandson, 92-year-old John Mimnall of Columbia and other local descendants, the boy is Washington Housekeeper Potts. Born in 1848 in the Christiana area near the Chester County line, he was 14 at the time the photo was taken. A bugler as well as drummer, the boy was well-known for being able to play 36 different bugle calls. After the war, Potts went to work for Conestoga Traction Co. He died in 1911 or 1912, according to Mimnall. Potts is buried in Riverview Cemetery.”
• also from the Intelligencer Journal/New Era: Mary Cappabianca of Mountville was named to the Syracuse University dean’s list for the fall semester. She is attending the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
• More May special events: National Anxiety and Depression Awareness Week – National Women’s Health Week (May 8 – 14)
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