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

Question for today… “Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” – Oscar Wilde.

• While some water companies don’t actively reach out to Customers, others do. The City of Lancaster sent automated calls to people who signed up to receive telephone call messages like this one: “This is an emergency message. Good morning the city of Lancaster is currently flushing hydrants in the distribution system. The flushing is from eight am to two pm Monday September sixteenth through Friday September twentieth while this may cause a temporary cloudiness in the water and the slight reduction in water pressure but this occurrence should be temporary. If you experience cloudy water please report by calling the water quality laboratory at 2914818(?) Monday through Friday seven am to four fifteen pm at all other times. Please call the water emergency number at 2914816.”

• Summers back out – The New York Times

• Scenes from another small town fair: Hinkelfest in Fredericksburg, PA. The gentlemen in the center above, Jeff Heilman, handcrafts brooms … different kinds of brooms for any kind of use. You can expect to see him at Columbia’s Bridge Bust on October 5.

Heilman is shown making one of his brooms in this Lebanon Daily News photo.

• Here we go again: “Timeline – When to expect a possible shutdown and other key fiscal deadlines” – Government Executive

• “Nina Davuluri, a 24-year-old representing New York is the first contestant of Indian heritage to become Miss America.” – York Daily Record

Columbia news, views & views was taken with this Ford amidst dozens of newer models at a used car lot in Lebanon County.

• “Affordable Care Act’s effects to be felt in York County, elsewhere” – York Daily Record