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today’s news … Sunday, August 5

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

Quote for today… “It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” – Frederick Douglass

  • Manor Township has begun planning for the Manor Township Trail … “he township plans to build a 60-space parking lot at the northern terminus at Turkey Hill and rehabilitate for pedestrian use the hulking Conestoga River railroad trestle at Safe Harbor dam. The $2 million-plus project will accommodate walkers, bicyclists, horseback riders, cross-country skiers and other nonmotorized users and will stretch south six miles to Brenner Hollow Road in Conestoga Township.” – Lancaster Sunday News
  • Hiding anything that’s bad: “Once you get isolated from other people, the tendency is to hide anything that might be bad,” (Ron Smith, a Penn State professor emeritus) said. “Instead of fixing it, you hide it. I think that’s what happened (with the football program at Penn State).” – Harrisburg Patriot-News
  • Morgan Elizabeth Difenderfer, Columbia, B.S., nursing, was named to the spring dean’s list at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. – Lancaster Sunday News
  • “United Disabilities Services offers Challenger Football for players ages 5-25 with physical and developmental disabilities. The non-contact games will be played at 9:30 a.m. Saturdays through Oct. 13. Most games are played at Manor Church, 530 Central Manor Road. Game Aug. 18 is at Warwick Football Field and games Sept. 15 and 29 are at Grace Church Field, 501 W. Lincoln Ave., Lititz. Volunteers are also needed. Call Jennifer Howell at 715-8755 or email jenniferh@udservices.org.” – Lancaster Sunday News
  • POLICE LOG: “COLUMBIA: Justin Michael Kurtz, 20, of Columbia, was charged July 26 with the purchase, possession, or consumption of alcohol, and public drunkenness, in the 200 block of Cherry Street, police said. – MANOR TWP.: The owner of a fruit stand at 582 Central Manor Road reported to police Thursday that at about 6:45 p.m., a silver sedan with multiple occupants pulled in to the driveway and then backed out onto the road, township police said. A male got out of the car and grabbed a money box and a bucket of peaches from the stand. He got back into the car, which headed north on Central Manor Road toward Mountville, police said. Loss is about $30. – A resident in the 2200 block of Prospect Road in Washington Boro reported to police Friday that sometime the previous night someone placed a homemade explosive device in her mailbox and blew it up, police said. Damage is estimated at about $25. – Lancaster Sunday News

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