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

Quote for today… “Two women placed together makes cold weather.” –  Shakespeare

• Outrageous! 21% water hike and the water company doesn’t care enough to warn its Customers about possible contamination. – LancasterOnLine

The forgotten hero of the Champion Cubs and Columbia, PA. (SOURCE: Finger Food: by John Finger)

• “Columbia’s only major league baseball player, Jimmy Sheckard, will be honored at the unveiling of a monument dedicated to him on Saturday, May 4, at 4 p.m. at Glatfelter Field.” – MyColumbiaNews

• Letters to the editors in today’s Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

• More controversy at Harrisburg gun show – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• Two pages of abbreviated Sheriff Sales in today’s Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era list several Columbia properties. The Sheriff’s Department Website lists all the properties.

• Will this winter never end? – Frost tonight in mid-state. – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• POLICE LOG: “WEST HEMPFIELD TWP.: Nine unlocked vehicles were entered overnight Tuesday in the 200 block of Main Street, Silver Springs Road, Lenia Drive and Cooper Avenue. Loose change and some credit cards were taken from a few vehicles.” – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

• “HISTORY CLUB: The World War II Oral History Club will meet Tuesday, at 7 p.m. at St. Anne’s Retire­ment Community, 3952 Co­lumbia Ave., Columbia. The purpose of the club is to preserve an oral history of World War II. Speaker will be First Lt. Frieda M. Holbein, an Army nurse who served in France and Germany with the 236th General Hospital. The meeting is free. For more information, call Dan Mastros at 684-9152.” – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era