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today’s news … Thursday, October 11, 2012

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

Quote for today… “Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” – Humbert Wolfe.

  • Today is a “market day” at the Historic Columbia Market House.
  • “Heating bills will rise 20 percent for heating oil customers, 15 percent for natural gas customers, 13 percent for propane customers and 5 percent for electricity customers, the EIA announced Wednesday.” – Harrisburg Patriot-News
  • OPINION: The insanity of the inequity state’s pension system screams for attention as you look at these figures.  While the average “state retiree Joe and Joan” and teachers and road workers, get deserved moderate retirements, guys like these get wildly inflated state pensions: Jerry Sandusky, Over $4,900 a month! Gary Schultz, $27,588 a month! This is nuts! And while the State Pension Board just announced it has seized Sandusky’s pension, the systemic inequity remains. And this article from Philly.com, is more insanity. How can these “pigs at the trough” – these elected public servants now decry retirement pensions for teachers and other state WORKERS long after inept bargaining by local school boards and their predecessors made the deals? How can these elected public servants attack and repudiate system excesses without first examining those in the legislative body? This is nuts!
  • Lancaster County LINK to Aging and Disability Resources will host its monthly partners’ meeting and a cross-training workshop on Thursday, Oct. 18, at St. Johns Herr Estate, 200 Luther Lane, Columbia. The meeting begins at 1 p.m. Immediately after the meeting, John Eccleston, the Lancaster area manager for AHEDD, will overview the services and decribe the processes the agency has pioneered in performance-based contracting in providing employment services to increase industrywide accountability.There will be a tour of St. Johns Herr after the discussion.The event is free, but anyone planning to attend should email lancastercountyLINK@mail.com or call 380-9714 by noon on Oct. 16. – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
  • POLICE LOG: “MANOR TWP.: Patrick Brennan, 49, of Columbia Avenue, has been charged after he was stopped Sept. 4 while riding a bike on Columbia Avenue. – MANOR TWP.: Mollie Hernandez, 32, of Letort Road, Conestoga, has been charged after she allegedly was found slumped over the wheel of a vehicle July 21 in the 600 block of Letort Road. – MANOR TWP.: Melvin Rivera, 22, of East Madison Street, has been charged as the result of a traffic stop June 23 in the 2300 block of Columbia Avenue. – MANOR TWP.: Nicholas Stratton, 24, of Peacock Drive, has been charged as the result of a traffic stop June 9 in the 2500 block of Columbia Avenue. – MANOR TWP.: Thieves broke into 13 vehicles last week and took wallets, change, electronics and cigarettes. Most of the thefts took place overnight Oct. 2 in the West Lancaster area around Banyan Circle Drive, Heritage Avenue, and Hemlock and Manor Ridge roads. Police also believe the thieves took an orange BMX-style children’s bicycle from the rear of a residence on Banyan Circle. Some stolen items were later found in the 200 block of Millersville Road. Police ask anyone with information to call Sgt. James Alexander at 299-5231. – WEST HEMPFIELD TWP.: Six people were hurt in a three-car wreck on Route 30 West between Druid Hill and Hill Street at 2:43 a.m. Tuesday, police said. Kelvin Jo Curet-Sanchez, 24, of York, fell asleep while driving his car and the car became disabled, police said. Two other cars, driven by Melody A. Dougherty, 50, of Columbia, and Frank Bumbalow, 55, of Staten Island, N.Y., then struck Curet-Sanchez’s car. Chelsie Lutz, 24, and Aubrie Lutz, 3, both of Columbia, were passengers in Dougherty’s car. Bumbalow’s wife, Gilda, 57, was his passenger, police said. The drivers and passengers were transported to Lancaster General Hospital and were treated and released, a hospital spokeswoman said. Westbound Route 30 was closed for an hour, police said. Curet-Sanchez is being cited with careless driving.” Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

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