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today’s news … Monday, May 28, 2012

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

Quote for today… ““The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet churchyard in the land.” – Grand Army of the Republic General Order Number 11 issued by Civil War Commander in Chief John A. Logan.

Tyler Brommel, 3, covers his ears as a band marches past his spot on the parade route. (Richard Hertzler / Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era Staff)

  • “More than 100 people gathered in the shade in Locust Street Park early Sunday afternoon for Memorial Day rites, which included patriotic music by the Bainbridge Band and a reading of the Gettysburg Address by Columbia High School senior Mikayla Kemmerly. Hundreds more lined the borough’s streets later in the afternoon for Columbia’s annual Memorial Day parade.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
  • Letters to the editors in today’s Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era question Columbia parking, applaud art; explain Access Card use and debate US debt.
  • “Jill Meshey recently received her master’s degree in gerontology from McDaniel College in Westminster, Md. She is a 2006 graduate of Columbia High School and a 2010 graduate of Towson University, where she received her bachelor’s degree in exercise science, summa cum laude. She is the daughter of Tammy and John Meshey of Columbia.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
  • “Michael Joseph Dipietro of Marietta, is one of five area students attending Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Business Administration who were inducted recently into Beta Gamma Sigma, an international honors society that recognizes students in the top 10 percent of baccalaureate and top 20 percent of graduate programs at schools accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
  • LEGAL NOTICE published in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era, May 28, 2012. “NOTICE Articles of Incorporation for Gap Softball League, a non profit corporation, were filed February 28, 2012, with the Department of State of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under the provisions of the Nonprofit Corporation Law of 1988. The corporation is incorporated for the purpose of promoting softball and other recreational, physical and sports activities, and to improve and maintain public park areas in Gap, Pennsylvania. BLAKINGER, BYLER & THOMAS, P.C. attorneys. [EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an example of a non profit organization following the prescribed registration and notification process.]

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