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… “Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.” – Herbert Hoover
- Price of Poverty – Lancaster Sunday News (Editor’s NOTE: Is it worth the price of two wars that nobody wins?)
- Beware the “check-out fee” – “Beginning January 27, 2013, merchants in the United States and U.S. Territories will be permitted to impose a checkout fee on consumers when they use a credit card.” – Visa Website [NOTE: “To avoid surprising consumers with the new fee, retailers must provide “clear disclosure” (such as signage) of any checkout fees: – at the store entrance, – at the point of sale, – on their homepage if it is an online merchant and on the customer’s receipt.” – consumeraction.org]
- Columbia Heritage River Cottage Association, Inc. sells river properties; here’s the listing from the Lancaster County Recorder of Deeds. Transactions take up nearly a full column of Columbia deeds recorded in the Lancaster Sunday News
- Email from a friend: “New Commemorative Pistol – Ruger is coming out with a new pistol in honor of the United States Senate and House of Representatives. It will be named the ‘Congressman.’
“It doesn’t work and you can’t fire it.”
- Gun show protesters at Leesport Farmers Market – Reading Eagle
- E-Z Pass instead of toll-booth staff … and turnpike tolls rocket! – Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and York Daily Record
- O-o-h … the reality in this week’s restaurant inspections in Lancaster County – Lancaster Sunday News
- This week’s restaurant inspections in York County. – York Daily Record
- A complete listing of all facilities in Lancaster, York counties and the entire state, except those in Columbia, is available at the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Website.
- “The following deeds were recorded at the Lancaster County Courthouse Dec. 24-28. Robert D. Porter, Porter Porter and Marilyn F. Porter conveyed property on a public road to Investors Property Management LLC for $300,000. And Robert D. Porter conveyed property on a public road to Investors Property Management LLC for $45,000.” – Lancaster Sunday News
- POLICE LOG: “MARIETTA: Robert Dale Bowers Jr., 48, of the 200 block of North Fifth Street, Columbia, was charged Friday after a traffic stop Wednesday on Robert Mowrer Drive. – LITTLE BRITAIN TOWNSHIP: Someone used a Sunset Drive resident’s Wells Fargo debit card to make Internet purchases of $4,400 between Dec. 20 and Dec. 27. – ELIZABETH TOWNSHIP: Someone used a West Newport Road resident’s credit card between Nov. 5 and Nov. 14 to make purchases in California amounting to $9,699.99. – MANHEIM TOWNSHIP: Power tools and copper piping were taken from a garage in the 500 block of Service Road sometime between Dec. 30 and Jan. 2. Loss is $1,000.” – Lancaster Sunday News (NOTE: Interestingly, stolen tools are reported in some communities. Also interesting is the incidence of two stolen credit/debit cards. Equally interesting to note that crimes were reported in at least a dozen county communities, but none from here in River City … the community with the third-highest count of “police calls” in the county.)
Columbia news, views & reviews 
Why is it so hard to understand that Columbia is special? They make there owne rules and inforce them the way they want. It’s sad because it could be a much nicer place to live with these actions.
Sorrry I missed the word OUT.