today’s news and information gleanings from here and there! 

• Today’s Weather! 
• Today in History!
• Traffic Cam Rts. 30 & 441
• The Official Time! – Population Clock (U.S. and World)

Quote for today… “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Gas prices bounce up! Again. Click here to see the local prices for regular.
• Columbia, 34 – Annville Cleona, 8 – three sides to tell the story (Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era, Jeff Reinhart’s e-news & Lebanon Daily News)
• School tells seniors: You must take SATs – “William Penn seniors must take SAT. Apply to college to walk at graduation” – York Dispatch
• Last night, the Columbia Borough Planning Commission met from 7:00 pm until 7:48 pm. All commission members were in attendance along with four citizens and councilor Jim Smith. Click here to see the agenda. Chairperson Don Haines used a microphone and was thanked by a citizen for being sensitive to the citizens who may have difficulty hearing the discussion. Councilor Smith complimented the members of the commission for their professionalism. Items discussed included: a refining of the Borough Map; discussion of several properties; the decision to post the agenda and minutes at the Borough Website and the Plane Street road/sidewalk/curb project. Columbia news, views & reviews will have greater detail on the meeting items tomorrow.
• City’s Historical Commission approves “mystery” business – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
• If you are as we are, magazines and papers stack up for a while. Seems there is not enough time to read everything; we just read through the October issue of the Journal of Emergency Medical Services and found this worthwhile article about leadership.
• And from an article entitled, “A Dream for My Daughter,” in the October 10 & 12 issue of Newsweek, the editor and publisher of a newspaper in a war-torn country is “committed to objective reporting – and to raising a daughter bewilderingly surrounded by the sights and sounds of her country veering to war.” Another worthwhile read.
• Occupy Lancaster movement continues to attract many to downtown park – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era – Opinion column in York Daily Record states: “Occupiers are not just lazy losers looking for handouts from the government or the wealthy – as they’ve been portrayed by some. Members of Occupy York – as well as similar groups elsewhere (even those camped out in New York) – are mothers and fathers, homeowners, workers – blue and white collar. They fear for the economy and the middle class, and they (rightly) worry about the growing disparity between the haves and have-nots.”
• Sad but true political cartoon from the Intelligencer Journal editorial page.