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Quote for today… “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead

• Chapter 11 bankruptcy for Friendly’s – York Dispatch
• PA House looking to revamp “prevailing wage” for municipalities, school districts – York Dispatch
• Maybe those light colored “wooly bears” are right; “Meteorologists are calling for only mild snow storms this winter – with a mix of rain and ice storms.” says an article in the York Dispatch.
• Got it right! “York mayor, police chief stress public’s role in crime prevention.” – York Dispatch.
• Rick Fisher, a Columbia resident,  is a paranormal investigator; he will reveal the results of his investigations of Elizabethtown’s Winters Heritage House Museum at the museum, 47 E. High St., at 7 p.m. Oct. 14. Read this article here. mycolumbianews.com
• Mountville man’s letter to the editors – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
• The seven billionth person – Betsy Hart is a syndicated newspaper columnist; her column about the impending birth of the world’s 7,000,000,000th person is worth reading. It appears in today’s Intelligencer Journal/New Era. – Chicago Sun-Times. There’s even a Website for the 7billionth person and another perspective here.
• “The Pennsylvania Office of Open Records has dismissed an Ephrata resident’s request for more than 10,000 pages of documents from Ephrata Area School District computers.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era.
• This war is a wasted one – “One in three U.S. veterans of the post-9/11 military believes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting, and a majority think that after 10 years of combat America should be focusing less on foreign affairs and more on its own problems.” – York Daily Record
• Banks in York County (Susquehanna, Metro, York Traditions, Fulton) reactions to Bank of America’s charging for debit card use [NOTE: This is in response to this posting from last week: Bank in York to charge its customers (you) $5 a month for debit cards. This is the same bank that got $15,000,000,000 in bail-out money in 2009. (SOURCE:CBSnews.com)] – York Daily Record
• This is citizen involvement – there are 945 people in Royalton; about a dozen showed up at the council meeting – “About a dozen residents at a Royalton Borough Council meeting Tuesday night … ” – Harrisburg Patriot-News