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Quote for today… ““The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower, address at the College of William and Mary, May 15, 1953

• The York Daily Record provides a nifty easy search of SAT scores in a school-by-school searchable database of York County school districts. The information accesses thePennsylvania Department of Education files of the state’s school-by-school 2011 SAT scores. In an earlier posting, Columbia news, views & reviews provided a link to an article from Lancaster Newspapers.

• Four Columbia musicians have been chosen to participate in the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association’s 2011 Youth Honors Band festival at Ephrata Middle School on November 4 and 5; representing Columbia are Paige Capps and Jordan Haberstroh, clarinet II and Alicia Huang and Jaden Vasquez, trumpet II. (SOURCE: Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era)
• Articles about the urgent care center, the Market House … good job LancasterOnLine.com Community Website!
• Tonight’s game previews: “Annville-Cleona (0-3, 1-4) at Columbia (1-1, 4-2): Crimson Tide looks to rebound from tough loss to Northern Lebanon. Key to the Game: Mike Burke IV, Nick Nobile, Seth Lefever and rest of Tide offense takes on Little Dutchmen defense ranked last in section.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era – and from the Lebanon Daily News, “First, the good news: The Little Dutchmen found some offense last week behind a 301-yard passing night from senior quarterback Tyson Hayes. Now the bad news: A-C (1-4, 0-3 Section Three) surrendered a staggering 549 yards on the ground en route to a 56-27 loss to Donegal. Here’s some more bad news: a dangerous Columbia team (4-2, 1-1 Section Three) figures to be hopping mad after coughing up a 20-0 lead and falling to Northern Lebanon 42-26 last week.
• In York, there was an open forum for candidates for school board. “Four candidates for York City School Board tackled topics including charter schools, vouchers and district finances during a forum Thursday night. Four candidates — Democrats Roberta Jane Hines, Marshall Leonard and Michael Miller and Libertarian David Moser — attended the forum. Candidates James Morgan, incumbent, and Gregg Nelson, both Democrats, did not attend.” – York Daily Record
• In Cumberland County there was a candidates’ debate for commissioner – Harrisburg Patriot News 
• New show at Jonal Gallery – begins tomorrow!

• Heard about GetGlue, a social entertainment network, allows its users to check-in to the television shows and movies they’re watching, the music that they are listening to, and the books that they’re reading. “Prohibition, the much-anticipated Ken Burns documentary on PBS about the 13-year ban on the sale and manufacturing of alcohol, has captured over 28,000 check-ins and more than 4,600 ‘Likes’ to date.” Read more about GetGlue here.
• “The Dallastown Area School Board tried out a new format for a town meeting at the high school last night.” – York Daily Record