• 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… “Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit.  A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.” – Ada Louise Huxtable

• An interview with Keith Eshleman, chief of the Blue Rock Fire District’s Millersville station department and leader of the Lancaster County Rescue Task Force  – “the county task force has 25 members, mostly from Blue Rock and the rest from Columbia No. 1″ – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• “(US Department of) Education faces major cuts and furloughs, secretary says” – Government Executive
  

• Looking for a good movie or a “luxurious retreat ‘for the elderly and beautiful’?” This delightful movie, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, is showing again this weekend at the Point of View theater in Millersville today at 4:30 and 7 and tomorrow at 4:30. If you are older or younger; have been, wish you were or are in love or are looking for meaning in life, we recommend this little movie heartily. Read the review in The New York Times.

• “Summer strains food banks; more families are in need, organizers say” says this Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era article.

• And in Columbia, “fabulousmami2007″ is starting a new food/clothing bank according to this craigslist post.

• Today Peruvians celebrate Independence Day.

• POLICE LOG: “MANOR TWP.: Paul Ross, 46, of Lancaster, was in the driveway of a residence in the 400 block of Charlestown Road on Thursday talking to a female whom he is not allowed to contact, township police said. Ross was out of Lancaster County Prison at the time on a work- release program. Police took him into custody and charged him with violating a protection from abuse order. He was arraigned before District Judge Joshua Keller and returned to the prison.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era