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

Quote for today… “Like a cueball, the harder you smack em the more English you get out of em.”– Commenter, Fedupit, on LancasterOnLine article, “Study shows which immigrants and refugees need the most help overcoming language barriers to find housing.”

• Nick Nobile is “Teen of the Week” – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

Artist finds metal media for is works at Frank Sahd Salvage Center in Columbia. – MyColumbiaNews

• Adding “salt to the wound!” Not only has this development raped and pillaged the land, now the not-yet-constructed CVS Pharmacy on Marietta Pike near Centerville is petitioning the township for bigger signs in this legal ad in today’s Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era: “Case #2293 – Request of CVS Pharmacy LLC (Marietta Ave & Centerville Rd) c/o CVS Caremark Corp, One CVS Drive, Woonsocket, RI 02895 for a variance of section 270-43 A to increase the size of several allowed signs in the C-2 Community Commercial Zone.” When is enough too much – there’s not exactly a dearth of drug stores in the county?
  

• Tip for CVS: More stores with bigger signs will not fix lousy “Customer service.” CVS is one of the “9 retailers with the worst customer service” in this USA Today article.

• Mountville fire is arson – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
  

• Big bucks bankers – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
  

• Trinity Reformed United Church of Christ, 450 W. Main St., Mountville, will hold its annual all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner Saturday, April 6, from 4 to 7 p.m. Cost is $7 for adults, $4 for children 3 to 12 and free for under 3. A variety of desserts will be offered for $1. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Backpacks for Education, which provides filled backpacks for needy or disadvantaged school children in local districts. – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era