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

• Today’s Weather! – Today in History! – The Official Time! – Population Clock (U.S. and World)
• Traffic Cam Rts. 30 & 441
• Lancaster County 9-1-1 map
• York County 9-1-1 map
• Lancaster County police incident map

Quote for today… “We have to stay abreast of these changes. Are we ready, as libraries, to provide information that streams? This is not that far away.” – Stacey Aldrich, Pennsylvania’s new Deputy Secretary of Education and Head of Commonwealth Libraries, in a speech exhorting the change needed in libraries. – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• Spy camera turn-around – “The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday filed what it said will be the first of several civil rights lawsuits accusing Philadelphia police of wrongfully intimidating and arresting citizens who try to videotape them.” – York Daily Record
  

• Ironville Pike house fire update – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

(Photo by Chris Knight, The Patriot-News, 2012)

• The rise in PA gun sales – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• “Boycott the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show” – Facebook page 

• Another exhibitor withdraws from Outdoor Show in protest second amendment protest – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• “Company confident it will get permits needed to build soybean-crushing plant in Conoy Township* – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• When I say Paterno – you say Pacino – Centre Daily Times

• Awards keep coming for O’Brien – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• Thank you. Periodically, the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era publishes a comprehensive listing of the contact information for state and federal elected “public servants. That list is reproduced here.

• “St. Anne’s Retirement Community will host a blood drive on Wednesday, Jan. 30, from 1 to 6 p.m. It will be held in the retirement community’s Pauline Hall, 3952 Columbia Ave, Columbia. To sign up, contact Hope Long at 285-5443. All qualified donors will receive a voucher for a pint of Turkey Hill ice cream and a travel bag. Anyone who can’t donate at this time can donate on Thursday, Jan. 31, at the Turkey Hill Experience from 2 to 7 p.m.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era