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Quote for today… “Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.” ─ Charles Adams

• From the Lancaster Sunday News: Columbia wins first round playoff game on chilly, rainy day. The Harrisburg Patriot-News said it this way: “Columbia knocks Cedar Crest out of Lancaster-Lebanon League softball quarterfinals“
• Lancaster Online now features a dining establishment inspections database; the database includes all County dining establishments, restaurants and institutions, – except those in Columbia,  as a regular feature on its Website.
• Recent food serving establishment inspections: In York County; from the York Dispatch – In Lancaster County; the listings appear on page D-7 of today’s Lancaster Sunday News.
• from today’s York Sunday News: “New monthly open-air market opens in Shrewsbury Township” 
• extracted from a column in the Reading Eagle: “Newspapers are unlike any other business. What we do is protected by the First Amendment, which guarantees, among other rights, freedom of the press. That allows us to report without the control of our government. It also makes us responsible for watching and challenging what our government does. You may not like everything that we publish, but imagine the void without a free press.”
• from today’s Lancaster Sunday News:   “Brandyn S. Zink, of Ironville, has earned his Eagle Scout rank with Troop 109, of Ironville. He is the son of Richard and Noreen Zink and Angela Crouse. Brandyn began his scouting career with Mountville Cub Pack 159 before moving on to Troop 90.”Over the past six years, he has completed the mile-swim four times; earned the God and Country and Fifty-Mile awards and completed lifeguard, Kayaking BSA, Scuba BSA and Spanish interpreter programs. He was elected to the Order of the Arrow and is a Brotherhood member. Brandyn has been quartermaster, patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, senior patrol leader and instructor. He is now junior assistant scoutmaster and serves as a den chief with his former pack.”He has attended many camps, including going to Canada with his troop’s Venture Patrol on a 50-mile canoe trip in Algonquin National Park.

  “For his Eagle Scout project he constructed a flag retirement area at Froelich Park in Mountville. Brandyn is a junior at Hempfield High School.” – from the Government Calendar: “The Historical Architectural Review Board of the Borough of Co­lumbia will meet at 7 p.m. Wednes­day, May 18, in council chambers of Borough Hall, 308 Locust St., Columbia. On the agenda: 20 Walnut St.; Columbia Water Co., owner; Buchart-Horn Inc., ap­plicant. Upgrade water treatment site to include renovation and demolition of existing structures, construction of buildings, installation of an ice wall and metal walkways.”