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today’s news … Thursday, April 19

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

Quote for today… “Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.” – Satchel Paige

  • “Police nabbed a man who tried to rob a restaurant in Columbia on Tuesday, they said. Frederick William Caswell, 59, who has no address, targeted the Columbia Family Restaurant at 960 Columbia Ave. at 10:05 a.m., borough police said in a criminal complaint. Caswell demanded all the money in the cash register and threatened to have a gun, police said.” – LancasterOnLine
  • “A Tea Light Lantern Float Festival designed to benefit the York County Youth Development Center is planned for April 28 in Wrightsville, according to a county news release. It is open to the public and will help raise money for the center’s youth programming and community outreach activities. The event will begin at 6 p.m. at the John Wright Restaurant. It will culminate at 8 p.m. with the lighting of pre-purchased tea light lanterns that will be placed in the Susquehanna River to float downstream.” York Daily Record
  • Love’s not supposed to hurt: “A Mountville man was jailed Wednesday for a series of abusive behavior against his girlfriend.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
  • Maybe parades have had their time as another parade is jeopardized by lack of funding. The Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era reposts, “It may be a lack of funds, but no lack of spirit. The 2010 American Spirit Parade was canceled due to lack of funding. The 2011 parade was threatened with cancellation, but an anonymous donor came through.This year, the April 28 parade has been pushed back nearly five months to allow organizers more time to try to raise money.”
  • POLICE LOG – “WEST HEMPFIELD TWP.: Seven Asplundh Tree Service trucks had one or more tires slashed overnight Sunday. – WEST HEMPFIELD TWP.: Mark Morgan, 31, of Lancaster, was cited Sunday after he struck a mailbox in Mountville. – WEST HEMPFIELD TWP.: Michael D. Rowley, 23, of Lancaster, was charged Monday with harassment and criminal mischief after striking a person during a domestic incident and damaging property. – MARIETTA: George J. Ditzler III, 33, of 10 Lancaster Estates, Mount Joy, was cited after a stop sign violation March 11 at North Decatur and West Market streets. – MANOR TWP.: On April 12, a resident of the 500 block of Owl Bridge Road was contacted by phone by a man who told him he had won $5 million through Publisher’s Clearing House and that he should send 1 percent of his winnings in order to claim his prize. Suspicious, the victim asked the man’s name and location, which made the caller angry and respond that he was Osama bin Laden’s brother and was going to blow up his house. The call originated in Jamaica. – MANOR TWP.: On April 5, a 71-year-old woman told police she had been approached by a man who convinced her to wire $1,000 to a friend she knew who was in Spain and needed cash to get home. After sending the money, it was discovered that the man had evidently hacked into her friend’s email.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
  • “Donegal Group on Wednesday reported a 263.1 percent leap in net profits for the first quarter, helped by higher revenue.Net profits were $8.0 million (31 cents a share), up from $2.2 million (9 cents a share) in 2011’s first quarter. Revenues grew 12.3 percent to $125.3 million. Helping the results were fewer weather-related losses and $1.2 million in earnings from its equity investment in Donegal Financial Services, which bought Union National Community Bank last May. Donegal Group is a Marietta-based insurance holding company.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
  • “LOWER SWATARA TOWNSHIP — Five teenagers, ages 14 to 16, were charged with starting a fire and harassing nesting game birds on Duck Island on Apr. 7,, police said. The teens were spotted by a passerby who called the police. All have been charged with violating a township ordinance against starting a fire without a permit and violating state game laws by harassing active nesting game birds.” – Harrisburg Patriot-News

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