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

Quote for today… “Hexane is a chemical byproduct of the oil industry that is explosive, smells like model airplane glue and is very dangerous.” – Scott Sechler Sr., president of a Pennsylvania-based organic poultry company, Bell & Evans, in full-page newspaper ads attacking the proposed Perdue soybean-processing plant in Conoy Township as a “dangerous project.” – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

Business opportunity; look close to see the FOR SALE sign on the Mountville Inn; saw this yesterday.

• “According to sources, Mark Wisler is stepping down as Columbia’s boys’ basketball coach. According to one source, Wisler told his team that he was stepping down after the Crimson Tide fell to Camp Hill 76-56 in the District 3-AA third-place game on Friday night.” – Jeff Reinhart’s column

• Fit for prison! – But it won’t happen; just because you steal a couple hundred grand from your employer does not mean you’ll go to prison. Some judges let you pay it off with a $50 a month payment plan! What a world! Crime, it seems, does pay. We’ve seen it right here in Columbia. – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

• And this “trusted employee’s” theft drove his Shrewsbury employer out of business – York Daily Record

• Sequester cuts here. Craig Lehman, a Lancaster County commissioner: “effects could be disastrous for local residents who depend on certain services.” – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

• Columbia’s Vanyel Leythem-Peterson got nipped by North Schuylkill’s Tanner Dean who scored an escape with 9 seconds left to pull out a 5-4 victory in the preliminary round of last night’s PIAA Class AA Southeast Regional Wrestling Championships in West Lawn. – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

• Today’s Lancaster New Era “talkback” column (No getting naked in Columbia) cites the comments following this article about the Zoning Board Hearing decision earlier this week.

• Penn State football team honored at Maxwell Awards – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• “Chickies Rock Moose Lodge, 219 Locust St, Columbia, will host an Easter bazaar on Saturday, March 16, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. It will feature homemade candies and food items, crafts, Easter baskets and gifts. There also will be a food stand and coffee shop. The Moose Lodge and Women of the Moose support Mooseheart, Moosehaven and local fire companies, schools and charities. For more information, call 684-6578.” – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

• LEGAL NOTICE, published in the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era, March 2, 2013: “Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that the Council of the Borough of Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania will consider for passage on Monday, March 11, 2013 at  7:00 p.m. in the Municipal Building, 308 Locust Street, Columbia, Pennsylvania an ordinance titled and summarized as: an Ordinance of the Borough of Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania amending Sections 207-17 and 207-20 of the Code of the Borough of Columbia regulating Parking in meter zones within the Borough during  specified hours; to prohibit parking on designated streets; and to restrict parking in  designated municipal lots; amending Section 207-48 of the Code to make certain streets around the Columbia Borough Municipal Building one way; amending Section 207-87 of the Code to waive handicap parking fees for severely disabled veterans; providing for the repeal of inconsistent ordinances; providing for the severability of the ordinance; and for providing that the ordinance shall take effect as provided by Pennsylvania law. A complete copy of the Ordinance may be inspected at the Municipal Building, 308 Locust Street, Columbia, PA during regular business hours and the Lancaster Law Library, located at 50 North Duke Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Columbia Borough By: Norman B. Meiskey, III Borough Secretary.”